10 point political game plan for the organizations and parties that oppose the agenda of Trump and the Republican Party

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Democratic Party, Green Party and Independents
game plan for opposing Trump
Day 113 in Trumplandia. So, you have cried, yelled, marched, protested, prayed and you are still in
complete opposition to Donald Trump and his new role in charge of America. You have vented to your
Liberal, Moderate, Centrist, Conservative non-Republican and non-political friends about the people that
love Trump, feel that they are taking their country back and wonder what that means for you, since you’re
an American citizen that doesn’t support and never will support Trump. You’ve even taken to social
media to debate and argue with Trump supporters but that hasn’t quelled that uneasy feeling in your
stomach. Now, it’s time to go back to session, in Congress, in state legislatures, county commissions and
other political, labor, business and social environments. You want to fight, but aren’t sure what you
should do next. I have a solution for you, which will help you appeal to the 35 million white and 39
million non-white voters who didn’t pick Trump, the 102 million who didn’t vote in the 2016 general
election and provide you with a legitimate, action based and constitutionally grounded plan of political,
governance and economic resistance to Trump and his 63 million supporters. This approach is indicative
of American values of engagement, political discourse yet expand the leveraging of political and
economic influence in ways that have not been coordinated at the national levels that I’m proposing. The
action plan consist of the following steps:
1. Oppose, Oppose, Oppose - If you’re in the political minority in Congress, a State legislative
body, County Commission/Council/Supervisors or a partisan municipal council, do not vote for
any legislative proposal, ordinance, policy bill, appropriations bill or other action brought by the
Republican body. You are not required constitutionally or legally vote for the opposing parties
initiatives and since the Republican side is dismissive of you and your electoral relevance,
withhold your votes on everything. Let them own every legislative action that they want.
2. “Why buy you” and big data – Big Data is critical and mandatory to not only understanding
your consumer audience, but also identifying how to sell products, services and messages to
them. The proper use (as with President Obama’s campaigns and Donald Trump’s campaign) will
allow you understand and pick the right mix of sales messages to appeal to your existing
marketplace of voters and growing their excitement and purchasing participation in future
elections (growing your mid-term election turnout of the presidential year voters and increase the
participation of like-modeled voters that didn’t participate in the Presidential year elections). Big
Data, if used correctly, allows for a campaign to use data to drive emotional connection and
response which then drives brand loyalty and sub-current sales activity through your primary
consumer audience to sell your product (candidate, platform, policy, etc.) to your secondary and
tertiary consumer audiences (word of mouth, peer motivation, follow the crowd, groupthink, etc.).
3. Legislative counter-action – prepare and present a detailed, community based action agenda of
legislative policy and appropriation initiatives that impact the broader community, not just your
base. After presenting that, introduce every possible legislative bill, ordinance and other
actionable items to counter their proposals point by point (You need to match bill for bill, policy
aim for policy aim to demonstrate a logical and tangible alternative solution plan for your city,
county, state and the Federal government). Additionally, introducing amendments to their
proposals in committee and for floor debate is critical as well. This allows you to fulfill the action
plan for all districts in your state, county or city (including theirs) and also forces debate on your
proposals even if you can’t get movement on your bills.

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4. Hold voter engagement events in every district, especially in theirs – Normal practice is to
hold town halls, public hearings, committee sessions in your congressional or legislative districts
or those of your partisan colleagues (Democratic in Democratic, Republican in Republican,
Independent in Independent, etc.). I’m advocating that you conduct those events in all districts.
Even in Republican districts and counties, there are voters that fit within your consumer profile
and that buy your product. You need to reach them inside of those districts because their
participation is critical to success in winning state-wide elections. You also need to build your
consumer base in the opposition so that as demographic and mobility patterns change, you will be
ahead on forecasting and realizing electoral success in those district.
5. Broaden your talking point to focus on how your policies have helped the across the
economic stratus – Various economic studies since the Roosevelt era have shown that all key
economic factors grow at a higher rate during Democratic Presidents versus Republican
Presidents. These factors include; Stock Exchange Indexes, CPI, Decreasing the Wage Gap,
Private Sector and Public Sector Employment Growth, Wage Growth, Corporate Gross and Net
Profits, New Business Start-up, Relative Stock prices and Price over Earnings Dividend ratios,
Corporate and Business Capital Expenditures, Consumer Spending and Confidence, Disposable
Income, Housing Values, Personal Earnings growth and Mobility through the economic income
class models. The various data points demonstrate that Democratic economic policies, especially
Demand-Side Economic policies, have delivered positive returns for all levels of the US economy
and all sectors of the voter audience. Democrats should ditch the talking points of “working
class” lexicon and expand to targeted messages centered on a central theme – Democrats are the
party for all Americans and our policies have helped all incomes, ethnicities, faiths and
geographical regions of the country. We are the party for the urban family, the Muslim, Jewish
and European Immigrant, the Titan of Corporate Industry and the Farmer in the Heartland. We
work for all because we have impacted all positively. Then tailor your messaging to the correlated
data facts by audience type, geographical region and demographic profile. This message is built
for the long game of connectivity and truth building based on real economic value that the
Democrats can offer.
6. Specific use of Economic power – The non-Trump consumer base (175.9 Million adults and
their children) has a significant opportunity to use their numerical superiority to impact Trump
and the Republicans policy plans. The first fact, Democrats won counties that generate 65% of
the current Economic Opportunity in the US. These counties are the centers of economic impact
and provide a platform for flexing purchasing muscle to support companies (Corporate to Small)
that support non-Trump policies and boycott companies that embrace Trumplandia and
Trumpism. Additional focus towards small businesses of color and rural businesses that supply
goods and services that help small suburban and urban businesses grow. This needs to be a joint
effort between the Democratic Party, Green Party, all other political parties that oppose
Trumpism and the related business and trade associations that are interested in partnering to gain
greater access to these counties and their related impact. Separately, in the counties that Trump
won with a plurality but not majority (less than 50%), coordinate a similar economic policy
strategy to reflect your support of business that supports a growing, diverse America. A logical
strategy to fight nativism and intolerance is to use your economic power in a coordinated way.
Now, it’s logical that the Trump supporters will coordinate a equal and balanced economic
response to this strategy and that is logical on their part. The challenges that they face is that their
consumer base is smaller and generates less economic output than the Trump opponents.

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7. Coordinating an Understanding and Awareness tour – Some of the polarization and division
within our country comes from the lack of awareness of what is happening in different regions of
the country. I won’t rehash all of the divisive points of misinformation that are being spread about
Urban and Rural America and ethnic, spiritual and economic sectors of our country. The truth is
that we have a country where a close to unanimous majority believe in the value and goodness of
this country and want to see themselves and their children grow and thrive. What is needed is an
Understanding and Awareness tour to help elected officials, business groups, non-profit leaders,
educational leaders and most importantly citizens, to see what’s happening in other parts of their
state. The non-Trump political and non-political organizations need to invest in community
forums, bus tours, trade dialogue and other intra-educational activities to connect those in the
urban and suburban communities to the rural regions of their country and vice versa. This is a
multi-year strategy yet it will have value in helping communities understand their common
challenges and diffuse the myths about each region. This will go a long way to stopping the
ability of divisive forces in our country from using our collective lack of knowledge about each
other to divide us.
8. Win with the current voters who buy your product and grow from there – This election has
had a lot of pundits and experts decrying the losses that the Democrats suffered with white
working class voters (Trump won the highest share of white voters since Reagan v Mondale at
61% & Clinton had the lowest Democratic white voter share ever at 32%, doing worse than
Walter Mondale who received only 34% of the vote in 1984). At the same time, Republicans
received their lowest share of non-white voters (Trump’s voter weigh of white voters to non-
white voters was 87.4% white to 13.6% non-white, while winning a net of 17.1% of the non-
white vote, making his coalition the most disproportionately white for a Republican ever).
Candidates not named Donald Trump won 73,982,422 votes, equaling 54.02% of the total ballots
cast for President, so, 2016 did not mark a fundamental shift in the American electorate and
revamping the Democratic Party’s entire political strategy would be an enormous mistake. For
those who are scaring Democratic Senators that they must agree with Trump if they want to keep
their jobs, relax because there is an electoral pathway for you to win re-election without ever
agreeing with Trump on anything (In the 30 states that Donald Trump won, in which 47.32% of
the ballots were cast against Trump, even though Hillary Clinton only won 41.89% of those
votes). The winning model exist in two parts:
a. The non-Trump white voter base (44.5% of the Democratic base and 75.4% of the Third
Party candidate voter base, 39% of white voters overall, equaling 35,132,095 voters) are
primarily urban dwellers, younger, college educated professional or entrepreneurial in
new economy activities, traditional protestant or non-Evangelical Christians, unmarried
and LGBTQ) and another 6,956,933 younger white voters will be aging into the voting
population by 2020 versus an expected 7,048,854 white eligible voters who may die
prior to the next election (via trending mortality rates by ethnicity). Those lost voters
due to mortality typically are in the age clusters of 50 and older and live in rural, exburbs
and non-urban counties, which will dampen the white Republican voting base numbers.
b. Concurrently, the non-white voter base is continuing to grow in size (There are
46,567,100 non-white American who voted in the 2016 general election, another
41,651,148 non-white eligible American adults who didn’t vote and by 2020, the
combined potential of the non-white eligible American adult voter market could comprise
102.04 million) and geographical diversity (The majority of the Swing states in America
are continuing to increase their population and faith based diversity that can benefit
Democrats in 2020. Arizona, Georgia, Florida, Nevada and New Mexico are or will be
minority majority adult population states by 2020. North Carolina will be less than 60%
white and Michigan and Pennsylvania should be below 70% white and Minnesota and

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Ohio will move closer towards the 70% white threshold. This doesn’t include the
growing diversity of Colorado and Virginia, which went Democratic and New Hampshire
which has Democratic and Independent leaning voters).
9. Remember that there are non-Trump voters who believe in God also – One of the key stories
of every national election is the support of voters of faith and their growing support for
Republicans. Now the Republican Party does have significant support among some voters who
believe in God (White Evangelical Christians, Catholics and Mormons grew in their support with
the Republican Party. In this past election, their support of Donald Trump reached record levels,
81% of Evangelical whites and 60% of white Catholics, while achieving 61% of the Mormon
vote), the Democratic Party and other third parties are not devoid of voters of faith. The
Democratic Party’s faith based voter consist of African American voters of faith (70% are
Christian, 7% are Muslim and 8% are of other faiths), Asian voters of faith (majority of the
overall voter population are either Christian or Muslim), Latino voters of faith (over 86% are
Christian), Arabic voters (over 90% are Muslim or Christian), Jewish voters, and white Christians
who are non-Evangelical (Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian, other Protestant non-evangelical
religions and 35% of white Catholics). If embraced and coordinated, these spiritual centers within
the Democratic Party can have a concurrent impact in the electoral politics and areas of morality
and common American values (Immigration debate for example).
10. Use of Governmental programs, policies and initiatives in governance to provide fact based
results to support your policy initiatives – Democrats control 17 state governments, the major
counties in America, urban cities and thriving suburban communities. This gives Democrats the
opportunity to put their policy programs into full interaction and produce data results to support
what works and evolve with the necessary changes to improve impact. Utilize your control of
state legislatures and governorships to implement policy and appropriation models that you
believe will provide maximum impact on your state and citizens and do it without worry of
partisan partnership. Since Republicans move legislative action without Democratic support,
operate under the same rules. The longer you wait for bi-partisanship, the less that you will be
able to achieve. Conduct the same approach on the county and local levels and become more
aggressive in communicating your successes and being honest about your challenges. Also, get
friendly business and corporate support to help fill in the gaps that will exist from reduced
Federal funding during the Trump years. Remember, you have more of a mandate to execute this
type of game plan than you may think - In the 20 states and District of Columbia won by Hillary
Clinton, the rejection of Trump was huge, with 62.79% of the voters voting for non-Trump
candidates and Hillary Clinton winning 56.04%), so go forth and govern without fear. Try new
approaches to see if they work and revamp if they don’t.
All of these points are part of a logical, rationale response to the new reality of Trump and what his
leadership means for America, if you’re not in favor of his verbiage, tone, policies and rhetoric.