>> Over at CNBC there was this article that we saw by a writer named Jake Novak with a
little bit of what he is laying out truths that Democrats need to accept if they want
to have any chance of beating Donald Trump in 2020.
So we're gonna quickly run through those truths and perhaps we can come up with some truths
of our own.
We'll see if we agree with these.
So Jake Novak's truth number 1, Trump didn't steal the 2016 election, he won the White
House fair and square.
Stop complaining about a million different things or whatever.
Truth number 2, the economy is doing well, even for the little guy.
And you know that you're concerned about the economic well-being of the working class when
you still refer to them as the little guy.
And then number 3 is stop denigrating the voters.
So basically admit that Trump is great for literally everyone in the economy and hasn't
done anything wrong, and be really nice to his voters.
And they presumably will be nice to you.
So those are what CNBC is labeling as three truths that Democrats need to accept to have
any chance.
I think we do think there are some things the eventual candidateneeds to understand.
I'm not sure that those are them.
>> So I love the title.
Democrats need to accept these three truths to beat Trump in 2020.
So the idea is you have to accept that Donald Trump has an awesome economy, and you should
kiss the ass of his voters so you can beat Trump.
Thank you so much for the advice.
I really appreciate it.
It sounds like you're looking out for us, and so this looks so earnest.
CNBC and this dude who is a, by the way, earlier a producer on CNBC, driving this stock market
machine and catering to all the advertisers who are top companies that have gained through
the massive trillions of dollars in tax cuts that Trump gave you.
Well, you're telling me your earnest advice is to agree with Trump and that's the best
way to beat him?
Golly gee, wow, I'm gonna take that under advisement.
Okay, this is the kinda stuff Claire McCaskill and Joe Dunley would do right before they
lost.
>> It reminds me of, I don't remember the exact person, but Meghan McCain likes to occasionally
give advice to Democrats.
And she said at one point, if they wanna have any chance of getting Republicans like me
to vote for them they should put up this candidate.
I don't remember, I'll say Howard Shultz.
I don't know for sure who it was.
And then the person next to her asked a follow-up question, so would you vote for them then?
She was like, no, never.
>> Nice.
>> Why are you offering advice if it's so fake?
But anyway, look, I do think there are some things that the eventual candidate should
accept.
I think that if we have the right candidate we don't need to worry.
If it's Bernie Sanders I think he'll get all of this.
But if it ends up being Buttigieg or something like that, or if it's Biden, I know that everyone
on cable news thinks, it's gonna be a slam dunk.
He's gonna rope-a-dope him around the debate stage and have no problem.
But there are a lot of people on TV that seem to think that Hillary's sort of technically
won somehow.
There was just something that sort of messed with it.
Nothing fundamentally needs to change.
You can't criticize the way that she campaigned in the states that she focused on, the states
that she didn't, the fact that she wasn't really giving people much of a positive agenda
to vote for.
I think that if we end up with another candidate who either largely agrees with that agenda
and strategy, or at least wants you to think that they do during that, if it's Biden or
if it's Buttigieg and they run in the same way that is going to be a complete debacle.
>> Well, karma plays a long game.
Trump cheated in the 2016 election.
Don't say steal, he cheated.
Voter ID laws are cheating.
Gerrymandering is cheating.
Using stolen hacked emails is cheating.
He's being impeached cuz he got caught cheating in the next election.
The economy is doing well.
Well, our economy is like a reality show.
Food, medicine, rent, pick two.
69% of us have under $1,000 in savings.
And also ask Trump supporters, name one Obama trend economically that Trump didn't just
continue, that he actually reversed.
And finally, denigrating the voters, this is 27% of us.
46% stayed home, apathy won in 2016.
Trump came in third.
It's not denigrating to say to them, every Trump supporter, you're a better person than
Donald Trump.
You haven't stolen from vets.
You don't brag about committing sexual assault.
Hillary Clinton said a subset of his supporters are deplorable.
She was right they're racist.
We know they are, they don't care.
A positive message for Democrats is saying you deserve better than this liar.
How's Mexico paying for the wall?
He lied to you about everything, and the average Trump supporter is a better human being than
Donald Trump.
It's a stronger message, but these are all rubbish and it's meant for a guy at CNBC to
feel better about himself secretly rooting for Trump.
>> Of course, but let's do nuance.
So there are folks, and bunch of reporters and other folks on social media, even today
on my account on Twitter saying no, but Hillary Clinton won.
She won the popular vote.
I've heard that a million times.
Is she president?
I wish she was.
I voted for her.
I told you guys to vote for her.
>> Yeah.
>> I think Donald Trump is a monster.
I told you and I was right about that.
>> Bernie voted for her.
>> Yes, and Bernie endorsed her, did 39 different events for her, right?
Rallies for her.
But she's not the President, wakey, wakey.
So to John's point, okay, so you want us to pick someone just like Hillary Clinton because
you'd like to have the moral high ground when Donald Trump wins his second presidency?
Yes, but by other metrics Joe Biden won.
No, no, no, I just want someone to win win, to actually be president.
And so but the press again in unison lies to you about a fundamental fact.
They say if you pick someone like Hillary Clinton, they will have a better chance of
beating Donald Trump.
Just look at that sentence.
How could that possibly be true? Hillary Clinton isn't president.
But they tell you, no, no, no, Joe Biden, he's very electable, very electable and totally
agrees with Hillary Clinton.
Almost every position is the same or more conservative than Hillary Clinton.
So obviously you should pick him because remember how Hillary Clinton won and is the president?
She isn't the president.
So, no, you've got to pick a populist.
You've got to pick someone who the middle class can actually root for and be energized
by, not a guy who says nothing will fundamentally change.
That's exactly what Hillary Clinton said.
So they lost to a buffoon.
They lost to a buffoon, and they say don't worry, don't worry, let's make the same exact
mistake, no deal.
Now, lastly, on Donald Trump's voters, look, I agree with John, the other John, 100% that
I actually think the best thing Hillary Clinton ever said was the deplorable line.
>> Yeah.
And no one ever says it accurately.
She said half of them are deplorables and half are not, and that is true.
Half of them are totally beyond redemption.
What are you gonna do?
Are you gonna Klobuchar them into voting for Democrats?
>> And that's one-eighth of America we're talking, only one-eighth.
>> That's right, and those guys who hated that Obama was black, and I can go on and
on and on.
Yes, they are deplorable and you're not gonna win them over, you schmucks.
Yeah, you know what?
They're deeply racist and they hate Muslims and Latinos.
That's why they'll vote for Biden?
They're not gonna vote for Biden.
They got their dream guy in Donald Trump.
But the other half are what I called back then, and I was, again sorry, but I was right.
Why do I tell you that now?
Don't make the same goddamn mistake.
Cenk, you don't know anything.
You were totally right.
That's why we shouldn't listen to you this time.
Anyway, so they're brick voters.
They hate the establishment.
So they picked up a brick and they threw it through the establishment window.
That orange brick was named Donald Trump.
I mean, you can't find a better brick, total agent of chaos, right?
Let me just mess people up just for the sake of messing them up.
Just send in the cyclone and see what kind of damage it can do cuz that's how much I
despise the establishment, is what a big chunk of voters told you.
And instead of listening to that and going, maybe they don't like us.
Maybe they don't like the establishment.
Maybe we should go populist, but actual populist that actually helps the people.
Nope, not one person in media says that, in mainstream media.
You know why?
Cuz they are the establishment.
And they don't wanna admit to themselves that people don't like them.
77% of Americans in the last poll said the media is fake news, 77%.
And so, nope, nope, nope, I hear no evil.
I see no evil.
The establishment is wonderful.
We are wonderful.
We are beloved.
Let's pick someone out of our country club just like we did last time.
And then we'll get to say later it was the Russians, it was Comey, and we'll feel great
about ourselves.
And besides, what difference does it make cuz we all just got tax cuts?
>> Yeah.
>> Boom, I mean, you're exactly right.
Biden is in the lead right now because he won all these polls.
But if Hillary Clinton had had Bernie Sanders as her running mate instead of a very nice
guy, no one remembers his name, we'd be sitting around complaining about what an incrementalist
corporatist president she was right now and we'd still be in the Paris Accord.
We'd still have the Iran nuclear deal.
We wouldn't be putting Scott Baio on the Supreme Court.
I mean, if you don't have a rockstar candidate you have to have rockstar ideas.
It's all about getting the turnout.
46% stayed home.
I don't know what Donald Trump can do to make that many people stay home next time.
But at the end of the day, man, the worst thing that could happen to Donald Trump is
a second term.
Because my biggest fear, if John Kerry had gotten the White House in 04, he would have
caught that recession, taken all the blame, and we would have gotten a Ted Cruz in 2008
instead of Obama.
I don't root for a recession.
I'm with you, I don't want the economy to turn.
But we know the way it's going, and people have to intervene right now.
And it's not gonna be gradual improvement that's gonna save us.
The entire system has to be unrigged.
And that's the message that can really resonate with conservative brothers and sisters.
They've never heard Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren break down how they're being ripped
off, and they just voted for a guy with a golden toilet to stick it to the man.