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Democrats Confident of Winning 2020 Election on Anti-Trump, Pro-War Platform

Dan Geddes
3 min readFeb 7, 2020

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The U.S. Democratic Party is confident they can win the 2020 Presidential elections on their strength of their anti-Trump, pro-war platform.

We are the opposition party to Donald Trump, you see,” stated House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. “If you hate Trump and want to vote him out of office, then you have to vote for us. That is our unique selling point. People aren’t going to vote for the Green Party or something.”

The House Democrats still continue to support Trump’s defense strategy, having agreed to the administration’s massive defense budget increases last year during the same week that it voted in favor of an impeachment resolution against him.

By Gary Riggs — Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=79846709

The House Democrats also re-authorized the PATRIOT Act even though its powers can be exercised by President Trump, who they assert is abusing his executive authority.

“The PATRIOT Act is essential to our American way of life,” stated Speaker Pelosi. “So we must support the PATRIOT Act even if that control falls into the hands of Donald Trump, who is somehow still President. It’s better to have Trump controlling the domestic spying apparatus than having no domestic spying apparatus at all!”

Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg supports a strong military budget: “We don’t…

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Dan Geddes
Dan Geddes

Written by Dan Geddes

Editor of The Satirist (thesatirist.com) America’s Most Critical Journal; satirist, critic, standup in Amsterdam

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