Opinion | How Democrats Can Avoid Republican Traps

I think I’ve also heard you suggesting that Democrats need to be strategic about this. And you probably wouldn’t put it this way, but not always stand on principle. So after – – I would never put it that way Well, I know you wouldn’t, but that’s why I want to push you a little bit. It feels fair. So you – I read an interview where you were discussing Trump’s deportation of alleged gang members. You got to be smart about this. There’s perfect examples throughout any type of movement. I’ll give you a good example. When Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to go to the back of the bus. It wasn’t coincidence that it was Rosa Parks. They had purposely, vetted a lot of candidates to who would be the best example of this horrible segregation system. If we want to point out how awful this deportation system is, what it’s doing to families, we should do it in a smart way. Let’s find the most caring person, the person that people can empathize with. The person that says, I want that person to stay in our country. Don’t rush to a fight that someone has already set up, because these guys, and I think a lot of people don’t quite understand Donald Trump’s people are smart. They set up traps of this nature all the time, and they love nothing more for us to just run in there and just get into it with them. And they have all the advantages. They’ve already set up the field to fight in. They have all the information. And we’re just playing catch up.