Letter to the Editor: Dems have to play hardball to win – The Delaware County Daily Times

To the Times:

Political correctness is destroying the Democratic Party. The same vision has been playing in my head over and over again for the last four years.

Michelle Obama, standing at the podium, delivering her speech at the 2016 Democratic National Convention. "When they go low, we go high!" Never before or since have I heard a respected national Democratic figure describe in one sentence the failing strategy that the Democrats continue to employ year after year, from one election to the next. Their fear of offending anyone, raising their voices, showing some backbone, is in and of itself offensive to this Democrat.They say that the best defense is a good offense. What happens when you have neither?

Donald Trump and his allies can directly attribute their unthinkably remarkable success to an (offensive) offense that the Democrats have had no defense for. Obnoxious, insulting, cruel, ignorant, criminal; these are just few of the many adjectives that can be used to describe Trump's behavior. His pathological lying and lack of integrity, dignity and above all else, empathy, defies any and all logic of the characteristics that one would expect of their President. Yet the Democrats, predictably, remained polite, their dignity and integrity on full display. When will they learn that there is only one way to beat an obnoxious, lying, low-life con man that so skillfully manipulates half of the country into pleading their loyalty to him. And that is to play his game. If you can't beat em, join em.

Daniel Corcoran, Swarthmore

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