1. Lots of justified fear & anger over Trump's victory. Best way to turn that in productive direction is to pick a big, winnable fight
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2. Trump is a scumbag. Alas, his scumbagness still won him 300+ electoral votes. Best to pick an issue he's unpopular on: medicare cuts.
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3. Paul Ryan wants to privatize medicare soon (also in time social security). B/c Trump is president he has a shot: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/ryan-plans-to-phase-out-medicare-in-2017 …
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4.This is an incredibly unpopular policy. Ryan's plan would allow current seniors to keep medicare & offer future ones inadequate subsidy.
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5. Trump (like Clinton & Sanders) ran opposing cuts to medicare & social security. There is no mass appeal on this. None.
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6. Especially for the blue-collar Obama-to-Trump supporters & broader working class (both white & POC), this is a terrible policy.
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7. Beauty here is Paul wants to link repealing Obamacare with medicare cut. Which lets Dems defend both Obamacare & medicate in same fight
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8. So: you set up an "Emergency Committee To Save Medicare" headed by Sanders, Warren & Ellison.
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9. Trump might want to dissociate himself from Ryan's wretched plan so you label this from the start: The Trump/Ryan attack on Medicare.
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10. You make this a salient partisan wedge issue by noting, constantly, that they want to destroy both Medicare & Obamacare. Same fight.
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11. This is factually true but not the best political framing:https://twitter.com/dcbigjohn/status/797917799255576576 …
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12. If Ryan is going to try & push this stuff, then it's fair game to tell voters: "Trump betrayed you. He's Ryan's puppet."
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13. You pick this as the first fight to help define Trump's presidency and to drive a wedge between him & congressional GOP.
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