Time to destroy Trump like Johnson did Goldwater more than 50 years ago

Progressives, Democrats, Liberals, New Democrats, now know that the 2016 presidential campaign is the one for all the marbles. They must win.

On Sept. 7, 1964, the Daisy ad, a single Democratic Party TV spot which, among other things, won Lyndon Baines Johnson the presidency, radically revised the way in which advocacy and campaigns were thereafter done.Screen capture image of Daisy ad

Opinion

BY WARREN KINSELLA

August 8, 2016

TORONTO—Since the late 1960s, we progressives have been trying to get back what we once had. That’s not to say that we have been incapable of winning in the interim, of course. Jean Chretien, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Justin Trudeau have shown that we can, when the circumstances are right...

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