Democrats formulate their 2020 narrative.

The Omar Talib, BDS train, continues to roll,

and Antifa gets more favorable media coverage.

I'm Ben Shapiro.

This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

All righty.

Well, we have a lot to get to.

Today, we'll get to the Antifa Hubbub in Portland a little bit later on in the show.

Plus, we'll get to the economic update. But we begin today with the Democrats trotting out the new

narrative for 2020. It was obvious that this was going to be the narrative for 2020. The truth is

it was the narrative for 2012. It just wasn't the narrative for 2016. So in 2012, the Democrats

ran on the platform that, effectively speaking, there was no great way for the, for the United

States to get past its racial bias, except by electing Barack Obama president of the United

States again. That was the only good way to do this. And Mitt Romney thus had to be thrown under

the bus. Mitt Romney was a terrible, no good, very bad man. Mitt Romney was the kind of fellow who

was going to put people back in chains in the words of Joe Biden. Well, then in 2016, the Democrats switched it up because Hillary Clinton was the nominee. And it turns out it's difficult to run on a narrative of American racism. Well, your nominee is a white woman. And so now we are moving forward to 2020. Donald Trump has been the president by that point for four years, and people are looking for a narrative to use against Trump. Now, there are many narratives that the Democrats could use against Trump in 2020. They could do what Joe Biden has done. They could use a character narrative, that Donald Trump is short on character, that Donald Trump is divisive and derisive, that Donald Trump is mean and cruel and alienate suburban women.

That would be their smart move. The reason it would be their smart move is because it would attempt to emulate the coalition of 2008 for Barack Obama. So in 2008, Barack Obama did not run

on the race narrative. In 2008, Barack Obama did not run on the idea that the United States

was deeply rifted by racial strife and that the only way to fix that was

to elect him president. He basically ran on the suggestion that America was moving toward a better

day, no red states, no blue states, the United States. He ran on hope and change. And then he won

a broad-based victory. Yes, with heavy black turnout, but also with extraordinarily high

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