Short message

Republicans: apparently there is a type of person who likes to be beaten upside-the head (as one of my basketball coaches liked to say) by Capitalism and still, at the end of the day, like to be kept being beaten no matter the evidence that those doing the beating really don't have this person's best interests at heart.

Democrats: suspicious of Capitalism though, realizing how much they've benefitted from it, can't find a way to talk about real reform, but can find all kinds of way to talk about how terrible the Republicans are.

The Republicans referenced don't work on Wall St., they live in impoverished Red Swing States that voted Republican in 2016 and probably will again, even though this Republican Adminstration's done nothing to lessen their economic discomfort, and had no intention of doing so from the outset! It's really quite astonishing.

Meantime, the Democrats can't find a message, much less a candidate, that might convince these Red Swing State Republicans that they've been had up the wazoo.

I don't know that's there's anything comparable in the history of American politics: how the economically disenfranchised of this country have latched on to this Presidency, actually seeming to believe it's offering a lifeboat when all it's really dished out are crumbs from a pretty stinky shit sandwich. 

To win The White House in 2020, Democrats, whoever their Presidential nominee might be, have to keep the messaging simple. The Democratic message: the incompetence of the present Administration. For who among us, Republican or Democrat, can't relate to incompetence? 

Steve Mnuchin, former Goldman Sachs banker, hedge fund manager, national finance chairman for the Donald Trump presidential campaign in 2016, champion of both the little men and women of this nation, and presently Secretary of the Treasury of the United States of America.