My Debate Cheat Sheet

If I were a Democratic candidate on the debate stage, my “cheat sheet” would look something like what follows:

(I would have some additional witty one liners filed in my head, knowing that they have to come out spontaneously at the right moment or will feel forced and inauthentic.)

Climate Change:
Make solar panels in coal country and use the mines for carbon capture. Plant a billion trees. Take subsidies away from oil and gas and instead pay cattle farmers to change their profession as plant-based meat becomes a national industry. Create a Manhattan project for high-tech solutions to reverse climate warming. Make someone like Jay Ainslee climate czar.

Turning the working-poor into the middle class
$20 living wage. 20 million dollar maximum wage.

Income inequality
150 families own half the country. They need to give the tax cuts back and then some.

How to get legislation passed
If I get the nomination, I will campaign just as much in the states where Senate seats might be flipped from Republican to Democrat. And nowhere more so than Kentucky, where Grim Reaper McConnell has to go. And by the end of my campaign, believe me, every voter will understand what a filibuster is and why we need to get rid of it.