politics is a learning procession, you learn as you go along. democrats joined in correcting a macetake made in the wake of charlottesville. they allowed the issue to shift from the president s moral equivalency about naziism and anti-naziism to the question of statute use of confederate leaders. the democrats shifted the question which 90% of the people disagreed with president trump to an issue that remains a hot debate somewhere between the 40 yard lines. this is not the first time i recall the democrats decided to pick the wrong line on which to fight. i remember when president reagan was caught selling missiles to the ayatollahs in iran, they allowed the issue to shift to the administration using the profits from that sale to arm the contras in nicaragua. why shift from an issue of national betrayal to a question of whether or not we should arm an anti-communist faction in central america? it was another case of choosing an ideological position on which to fight over a winning iss