Yes, America, There is a U.S. Rep. Dean Phillips. He Should Be The Nation's Next President.
"The Moderate Democrat" endorses the Minnesotan for the Democratic nomination and for election as the 47th chief executive of the world's leading country.
In late summer of 1897, eight-year old Virginia O’Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of The Sun, one of her local New York City daily newspapers. She was concerned because her classmates taunted her for her belief in Santa Claus.
On September 1st, 1897, The Sun responded to Virginia with an editorial making this firm unapologetic stance:
Seasons Greetings!
To be sure and by no means does The Moderate Democrat intend to compare our endorsed presidential candidate, U.S. Representative Dean Phillips of Minnesota’s Second Congressional District, to the holiday season’s best-known (yes, and a truly) fictional character, despite what that NYC daily paper wrote.
Rather, we stand for reality.
During the past few months, Phillips has made a persuasive case that numerous polls are correct: Americans and even Democrats — much less independents, and even some Republican — are tired of the Biden-Trump candidacies. Americans elected Biden in 2020, the Trump protestations aside.
But in 2023, many voters are tired of this pairing. They desire different candidates; they want younger, intelligent, savvy, realistic, concerned, empathetic, centrist, mainstream, moderate, and prepared candidates to represent the two major parties.
No one has been more outspoken about this than Representative Phillips. He has a keener insight into the hopes, values, aspirations, and public policy desires of the electorate than anyone else in the race.
Task Number One: Make him the Democratic Party nominee.
Let’s go back to little Virginia O’Hanlon, the girl in New York City. She wrote to The Sun for advice about the existence of Santa Claus for this important reason:
This week, we’d like to say the same thing of another Gotham newspaper, The New York Times. Golly, do we wish that if it’s in The Times, it’s so.
But like other major institutions of the mass media in America, The Times has a horrible habit, intentional or not, of ignoring Representative Phillips.
Yesterday, it was Morning Joe Scarborough on MSNBC who said there’s no Democratic primary election in New Hampshire for Democrats to worry about.
Wrong!
I discovered today that on Wednesday, The NYT published a short article about President Joe Biden under the byline of Peter Baker, the paper’s ultra-accomplished chief White House correspondent. Baker wrote that Biden now says that perhaps 50 Democrats could beat former President Donald Trump, the likely Republican nominee.
Baker specifically cited Representative Phillips.
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I don’t have a beef with Baker. But I’m upset with the sidebar which accompanied Baker’s article. Here is the sidebar, probably written and edited by a Times researcher and a Times copy editor, neither named “Peter Baker.”
What’s missing?
How about the name of Dean Phillips — whom the reporter specifically named in his article? Yet the Times staffers who prepared the sidebar omitted Phillips from this list.
The Moderate Democrat says if it’s in The New York Times or on Morning Joe, it’s possibly not so. It’s as if the Times and MSNBC were protecting President Biden by creating a fiction that there’s no New Hampshire primary and no challenger named Dean Phillips.
At this blog, we believe that voters — even Democratic voters — are heading in a different direction. The voters, even Democrats, are tepid in their support of Biden. Voters in “battleground states” are worryingly tepid:
President Biden has done his service to the nation, for decades. But now he has liabilities including age, his son Hunter, his surprising lack of empathy for people feeling the effects of continuing grocery, clothing, and services inflation, and bungles that began with the haphazard and deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan.
In contrast, Dean Phillips has business and government service, smarts, a fine education, and hails from the nation’s political opinion center in the Heartland.
Reject fiction.
Reject habit.
Democrats who want to win will win with Phillips.
This is why The Moderate Democrat endorses Dean Phillips for the Democratic nomination for election as the 47th president of the United States of America.