Oprah appeals to the more liberal minded people. But if you want Trump gone, we need someone that will appeal to the moderate and conservative-light people. Obviously the liberals are going to vote for the Democrat whoever it is. But the moderates and conservative-light people need to be won over.
Alternatively, and probably more easily; get someone that actually excites the liberal base—get the non-voters to go out and vote. Going right isn’t always, or even usually, the answer.
the liberals alone can’t elect a President.
They managed to elect Trump by staying at home.
You think they stayed home? I thought they voted for Hillary or the Green party.
Forbes had an article on this: “The Non-Voters Who Decided The Election: Trump Won Because Of Lower Democratic Turnout”
This pattern is national. Clinton’s black voter turnout dropped more than 11 percent compared to 2012. The support for Clinton among active black voters was still exceedingly high (87 percent, versus 93 percent for Obama), but the big difference was the turnout. Almost two million black votes cast for Obama in 2012 did not turn out for Clinton. According to one plausible calculation, if in North Carolina blacks had turned out for Clinton as they had for Obama, she would have won the state.
Not just North Carolina, but the more closely-contested states as well.
I live in a fairly liberal area, and I can say that at least here, we’ve been down on the Democratic Party for not really representing liberal values for some time, probably really escalating with Clinton. Bill Clinton. Sure, I get out there and vote for what I consider to be pretty conservative and even downright awful (but less awful!) candidates, but that’s because I’m angling for the Democratic Party to move to the left again, or at least stop moving to the right so fast. A lot of my peers have given up at this point – they think there will never be a liberal national political party in America in their lifetimes, and maybe they’re right (snark: especially if they never vote!). Not all non-voters are ideologically stuck indecisively between the two parties, or people without strong political views at all. They’re just Democrats from the seventies who are looking around for a party they recognize, and don’t see anything even close (snark: and apparently they also have trouble distinguishing between conservatives and fascists for crying out loud).
EDIT: Jill Stein was even a joke out here in Leftyville, although apparently not enough of one. Back in the Clinton years, we had a few leftists successfully run for office here as Republicans, because Republicans were desperate to have anyone. It got pretty awkward when the Democrats got outflanked by the Republicans on the left, but the Republicans started clamping down on ideological purity around the same time, so it was a short-lived phenomenon.