The Dumbest Smart People

Joanna Cohen
The KickStarter
Published in
12 min readSep 27, 2020

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Yes, Democrats, I’m talking to you

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Imagine this: Donald Trump wins a second term.

And it’s not because he cheated. There’s no rigging. No bots or missing ballots. No relying on his comrade Vlad to get him over the line.

None of the doomsday scenarios the Dems are assuming will come to pass actually come to pass. There’s no military intervention, no violence in the streets.

He just plain wins. As in get more votes. Like, a lot more. The country spoke and what the majority of it said is that it wants Trump to stick around.

What will the left do then?

Will it finally embark upon the soul-searching it failed to do after Hillary failed to win the electoral college?

Will it address its staggering lack of self-awareness? Will it see how the very strategies it employs work counter to its own goals? Will it acknowledge just how often and how much it turns off and alienates its own? Will it come to understand how maddeningly predictable it is, and how that predictability plays right into the other side’s hands?

In other words, will the left finally take responsibility for its huge role in giving us another four years of the tawny beast and start making some serious changes?

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Joanna Cohen
The KickStarter

Writer, athlete, mom, sports fan. New York City native. Probably the only person on earth who has interviewed Derek Jeter and written dialogue for Susan Lucci.