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Michael Moore was right about Trump in 2016 — and he now has a dire warning for Democrats about 2020

In 2016, progressive activist and filmmaker Michael Moore predicted that Donald Trump would defeat Hillary Clinton and pull off an upset in some Rust Belt states that ordinarily go Democratic — including Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.

Sure enough, Trump won those states, achieving a victory in the Electoral College even though Clinton won the popular vote. And Moore is giving fellow liberals and progressives a stern warning for 2020: Trump’s base is every bit as excited now as it was in 2016.

Democrats, Moore is stressing, shouldn’t underestimate the “enormity of the fight” they will be facing in the 2020 election. The 65-year-old Flynt, Michigan native, who is famous for documentaries that range from 2007’s “Sicko” to 1989’s “Roger and Me” to 2009’s “Capitalism: A Love Story,” warned on Twitter that the president “hasn’t lost one inch of his fired-up insane base.”

View the complete July 10 article by Alex Henderson on the AlterNet website here.

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