Speaker Pelosi Wants Appeasement Policy Towards Trump — Says Feared Trump Action after 2020 Election Should Decide Democratic Nominee

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's
comments that her fears of Trump
refusing to step aside after a guessed
2020 defeat suggest a policy of
appeasement.

Pelosi Calls for Appeasement Policy to Convince Trump to Leave Office in Event of 2020 Defeat

Updated - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi expressed concern Donald Trump would refuse to vacate the presidency after the 2020 general elections.

Pelosi urged Americans to elect the Democratic Party nominee in accordance with her corporatist policy, an effort to convince Trump to voluntarily leave office after a speculated defeat, and to deter a challenge by Trump against the legitimacy of election results.

Pelosi made her comments in an interview with the New York Times, (Thrush).

Writes Glenn Thrush:

In recent weeks Ms. Pelosi has told associates that she does not automatically trust the president to respect the results of any election short of an overwhelming defeat. That view, fed by Mr. Trump’s repeated and unsubstantiated claims of Democratic voter fraud, is one of the reasons she says it is imperative not to play into the president’s hands[.]

Mollifying Trump is policy of Nancy Pelosi.

Pelosi said she can inoculate the country against Trump engaging in an act of defiance against adverse election results by electing her preferred candidates for the nomination.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi does not believe President Trump can be removed through impeachment — the only way to do it, she said this week, is to defeat him in 2020 by a margin so 'big' he cannot challenge the legitimacy of a Democratic victory.

That is something she worries about.

'We have to inoculate against that, we have to be prepared for that,' Ms. Pelosi said during an interview at the Capitol on Wednesday as she discussed her concern that Mr. Trump would not give up power voluntarily if he lost re-election by a slim margin next year.

Sitting in her office with its panoramic view of the National Mall, Ms. Pelosi — the de facto head of the Democratic Party until a presidential nominee is selected in 2020 — offered Democrats her 'coldblooded' plan for decisively ridding themselves of Mr. Trump: Do not get dragged into a protracted impeachment bid that will ultimately get crushed in the Republican-controlled Senate, and do not risk alienating the moderate voters who flocked to the party in 2018 by drifting too far to the left.

'Own the center left, own the mainstream,' Ms. Pelosi, 79, said.

Only the "big" margin of victory that Pelosi feels her preferred candidates would achieve can persuade Trump to leave the presidency.

In the Times interview, Pelosi also derided popular progressive policy initiatives that she opposes, such as Medicare for all and the Green New Deal, as "exuberances" — to be avoided because Pelosi has made her electoral assessment that the Speaker believes will result in a "big" electoral win in 2020 that would deter Trump.

It's unclear if Pelosi realizes she is advocating that fear of an unconstitutional, illegal and unprecedented action by Trump after the 2020 election should dictate major policy positions, including whom voters elect as the Democratic Party presidential nominee.

Nowhere in the Times piece is there expressed sentiment by Nancy Pelosi that the legitimate winner of the 2020 general election — regardless of who this is or what policy she or he advocates —   should assume the presidency, without respect to what Donald Trump believes or says.

This is Pelosi's first open call for an appeasement policy towards Trump.

Writes Thrush:

Few people outside Ms. Pelosi’s inner circle were aware of how worried she was that Mr. Trump would try to stop the opposition party from taking control of the House unless the Democrats’ victory was emphatic enough to be indisputable.

'If we win by four seats, by a thousand votes each, he’s not going to respect the election,' said Ms. Pelosi, recalling her thinking in the run-up to the 2018 elections.

The Times piece did not include the word, "appeasement," nor a quote from any source criticizing Pelosi's comments.

Ahistorical, unschooled and unwise, Nancy Pelosi appears inclined to damage freedoms and popular policy in an effort to mollify a fascist president.

It's not only Donald Trump who is torpedoing our most cherished democratic processes.

The 2020 general elections are not about seeking Trump's approval, consent or respect. Nancy Pelosi needs to understand this.