https://www.postandcourier.com/opinion/c...8ad50.html

As Ed Rogers points out, what else can she talk about?

"...Democrats can throw around phrases and ideas such as “massive inequality” and “everyone paying their fair share,” but the Trump economic boom is broad and deep.

The assorted calls for higher taxes and the socialist patina that Democrats are adopting could produce a referendum on the economy instead of a referendum on Trump’s character.

Given this reality, Democrats obviously will not be helping themselves with half-cocked manifestos such as the Green New Deal that would produce economic ruin. (Disclosure: My firm represents interests in the fossil-fuel industry.)

But never mind that. If the economic status quo holds, Democrats in 2020 will mostly have to stick to platitudes and slogans. The Democrats could be in a bind.

And while we are at it, on many vital foreign policy and trade issues, the Democrats will be left with little to say. For instance, no one running for president is going to declare that they will put the U.S. Embassy in Israel back in Tel Aviv.

No one running for president is likely to pledge to simply withdraw all the Trump tariffs. Similarly, it is unlikely that any Democratic candidate will pledge that they will put U.S. troops back in Syria or in Afghanistan...."