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Jentleson is a master at senate procedural knowledge but I disagree w the basic premise here. To ignore some social interest groups and focus messaging would lose money.
The R machine is rich w big biz money. We don’t have that. Agree we need big change but we also need, sadly, a huge war chest.
If these have been your thoughts, maybe I've been misjudging you. The progressive movement can't win by throwing its principles under the bus when elections roll around. Polls show that progressive policies and positions are popular, but that voters have bought into the BS from the right.
It's not the stances that need to change but the messaging and how we reach voters. If we sacrifice our values one at a time just to win elections, eventually we'll have no values left. If we fight against the lies and win the messaging war, we can shift the Overton Window left again.
I'll end this thread with the words of @juliusgoat.bsky.social : “Meet me in the middle, says the unjust man.
You take a step towards him, he takes a step back.
Meet me in the middle, says the unjust man.”
Here we go again- infighting. We need to win. When we are in power, we can enact the policies that support all Americans. Now, all we have lofty are goals and we’re banking on lawyers to stop fascism from taking our country.
An article from the NYT telling the American “left” that it needs to throw some of its own under the bus of progress.
Seeing as this publication is deeply racist and transphobic, I’m going to need you to clarify what thoughts of yours it puts down. Seem to be a few between the lines here, Brian.
While I understand our frustration, this seems like another article that suggests moving more to the center or right will help us win elections when we haven't tried moving further and harder to the left. Perhaps some righteous outrage about climate damage and taking rights away would help.
...All this was true until Gov. ABBOTT & DESANTIS started the busing of illegal migrants into northern Democratic states! The Biden administration lost the working class right there!!! Election was over on that instant!
This naively assumes that policy is relevant in today’s politics when it obviously isn’t. Kamala was strong on policy in an administration that enacted good policies and still lost to a racist rapist with no policy. The problem is that fear trumps joy as a motivator and Dems don’t do fear well.
Really so glad you and Jentleson have outed yourself as nihilistic shitlibs. This entire article is torpedoed by Trump’s own campaign strategy. He 1 on fascism & white grievance, and you seem to want to study his tactics and emulate them. The reason Harris lost is because centrist Dems stand 4 zero.
100%. Democrats need to make economic populism the center of their party ID and then take some public common sense stances on a handful of cultural issues and let the chips fall where they may.
I wish I could read the article but oh well
I'll just assume it's yet another nyt manifesto against the progressives trying to absolve dems of blame for having no passion, no goals and no authentic or original thoughts and relying solely on obama/clinton campaign staff even to this day
I can understand coalescing around the issues that affect the majority, while avoiding super niche arguments, but I don’t believe shifting to the center, or the right, is correct either. We can’t afford to alienate, we need to unite the best ideas from the entire coalition and run with them.
More dems learning all the wrong lessons. No one really cared about alignment with interest groups - either positively or negatively. They cared that the feudal capitalist system that both parties have engineered for 50 years only supports the parties and their donors and not the voters.
Donny just lied and told them he was going to change it. If Dems actually want to get back on board with the "people" they need to go back to The New Deal and then beyond and leave their rich donors behind. Yeah right. Most Dem donors would rather Trump in charge that that happen!
My dad was a civil rights activist I spent my childhood learning how to fight fascism and that the fight would continue forever I didn't understand it as a kid and now I do
a law is not the start and end of an era, it requires constant affirmation and resolve to maintain.
the way people argue for 2A the same as they argue for civil rights.
the same way abolition started long before the US, and wont end with me or you.
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It says Democrats need to say no to demand for pure but politically unpopular positions. E.g. defund the police, decriminalized border crossings, etc.
Demands like those tarnish the Democratic brand. That's how you end up with people liking policy proposals until they learn they're from Democrats
Border crossing are already only a civil or misdemeanor offense.
What Dems need to do is better messaging and more forceful pushback against republican propaganda/branding.
Throw some of your constituency under the bus. Which is what they have been doing. All to often in order to cater to right wingers who AREN'T their constituency or the rich fat cats that run the party. None of which has been helpful for retaining the majority of working class voters.
If throwing away the working class and pissing away human rights isn't at the core of the democratic party than you aren't the democratic party anymore.
You will not out conservative the republican party. Ever. Period. And frankly will not deserve power.
Agree and agree. I just don’t think it’s a binary choice.
There’s room to both double down on working class and human rights without being stuck in appeasement paralysis.
Mealy-mouthed Dems who are so spineless that they fail to stand up for equal Justice under law and cede ground to baseless republican propaganda end up helping move the Overton window further and further to the right.
The GOP used to dogwhistle but now the use a microphone.😡
🙄 This hyperbole is going to keep us out of government for the next 50 years. It’s not helpful. We just saw what happens when we kowtow to special groups: they don’t vote for Dems anyway, and we’ve lost moderate liberals. Terrific.
How exactly did Dems ‘kowtow’ to ‘special groups’ other than VP Harris stupidly campaigning with a f’cking cheney or regurgitating APARTHEID Israel hasbara/propaganda?
Check the exit polls sunshine. Those groups mostly showed up with exception to one group that that democrats have made it their mission to disenfranchise. A group that has high representation in swing states.
That screwed the swing state path to victory. Add to that the problems with inflation.
It's like saying, if we just didn't support civil rights in the 1960s, we'd still have the New Deal coalition today, so we shouldn't have supported civil rights. Morally repugnant.
The article doesn't actually point out where the problem is just trying to craft a blank check for dem establishment to continue betraying the voters they need to gain and maintain seats.
If this represents BTC's political ideas than he himself is problematic.
Identity politics is code racists use to whine about groups other than straight white men being the center of everything.
The people who whine about identity politics are the ones who melt down over a Black super hero or female ghostbusters or tv shows with lgbt family members.
I am not saying marginalization isn't a thing. I am just not sure running national campaigns on the issue is a winning strategy. Once in power, marginalization can be addressed. However, the best ideas offer universal benefits to all disenfranchised groups, not just one or two.
Bill Maher is a clown. And not even a funny one. He is political cancer. He exists to allow white well to do liberal to feel better about being morally bankrupt, out of touch and full of shit.
We are already seeing democratic senators buy in (and frankly mask off ) on trans issues. Not to mention the alienation of Arab voters fully putting on the display of Islamophobia and the foreign meddling that has taken over much of congress.
I did vote Harris. But if Democrats don't want a coalition within their existing base and do bullshit like keeping a candidate past there prime and then expect to hold a new campaign in a couple months then they are determined to commit electoral suicide.
What's the slim chance that somebody on here has the ear of anyone tied to Biden or a staffer? He ought to step down NOW which would put Harris in as the 47th President. It would require little of him and would place her in our history forever even if only a few weeƙs. Freak out the monster. HA!
This is the the wrong approach. How can we move forward as a society if there are no voices demanding progress? Democrats need to stop running away from right and just positions. Otherwise we will be smothered by hate, climate denial, and the raping of the country by billionaires.
In any contest between a genuine Republican and a Republican-Lite, the voter will pick the real version.
The problem isn't the ideals (a majority of people prefer progressive policies); it's the messaging. Dems suck at this.
But Bernie Sanders didn't. His is simply "Justice". See how easy that is?
I don't know if I agree with everything here but it is clearly true that there are organizations out there that presume to speak for groups of people when they simply do not. I suppose the answer to this is to listen to what folks are actually saying and not what their would be defenders say.
When we we truly embrace NO MORE MR NICE GUY !
NO APOLOGIES
STOP EXPLAINING OURSELVES
NO MORE LIES, TYRANNY, OPPRESSION NO MATTER HOW MUCH WE LOOK LIKE A FIGHTER!!
I have been wondering about centralization of messaging and structure among the left. There are just too many groups, all vying for our attention and money, and I worry it just diffuses our strength in numbers. There must be a way to organize and align them all around the same core talking points.
Exactly. There are a lot of factions in the Democratic Party and it's quite difficult to appeal to everyone without alienating some. Even when you're trying to protect one group, you're turning off another. They constantly have to thread that needle.
The DNC are either idiotic or they are controlled opposition. They repeat the same mistakes over and over again. They need to embrace the left and stop just bending over and letting the Republicans control the narrative as they have for decades!
There's nothing particularly breakthrough here. This is just the latest variation of the "to win, we must be just like them" concept that is actually quite popular territory for a lot of journalists lately. No thanks. The Dems have done enough to win the popular vote in 4 of the last 5 cycles. Fact.
Yep. It's the voters who're the problem, not the Dems. The white male grievances, racism & misogyny, the Christo-fascists, xenophobes etc. How exactly does one craft messages to stop people voting against themselves? They've been brainwashed by Russian/Chinese/Christo-fascist propaganda, ffs.
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I don’t want to just win. I want all our leaders to vote for legislation the people want instead of some game of thrones bullshit. The people agree on a lot more than we’re led to believe. Having said that, God above how is Trump president? 😩😩😩
I have lost faith in the they go low, we go high philosophy.
We just need to get tough and kick some butt.
Personally, I’m tired of being polite and demure.
Dems have to start talking to the least educated people and fear monger them too. Fight fire with fire, so to speak. Use their own tactics against them.
Brian, this article sucks, and is the same defeatist horse shit that moderate dems trotted out in 2016 and 2020 when they were losing their seats while unapologetically progressive candidates were winning.
Like, we got our first trans representative in the House this year, AOC, Rashida Talib, and Ilhan Omar outperformed Harris, there's no arguing that THEIR ideals are what lost the election, but there is every reason to believe that the party as a whole abandoning those ideals is.
You can’t make that conclusion. Their elections were local where their ideals already existed in their community which why they got there in the first place.
Now had they gotten better performance than Harris if they were also on a federal ticket…that would prove your point.
You mistake my point for "Harris would have won in a landslide if she had pivoted to the left" rather than "Harris lost winnable voters in swing states that made their ideals known through the other candidates they voted for."
Oh I understand. The office of the president is a national election won by the candidate closest to the center. Unless you want to tell people in swing states different things from others voters, like Trump, just to win.
That's absolutely not, and has never been the case, and the failure to recognize that both of Trump's victories were a rejection of neoliberalism, which both of his opponents espoused, and not some reaction to the perception that Clinton and Harris were far-left, is exactly the reason he won.
Brian, this is a great article. Thank you. My internal question remains whether we will ever have a legitimate election again. Election fraud, election interference, Citizens United, and the profound impact of candidate dishonesty and information manipulation make it seem uncertain at best.
I think It purposely takes it out of his ability to control. Plus if Joe creates a document that all Presidents have to sign before taking office that ensures first and foremost that the incoming president agrees to take zero action of any kind to stop the decree or render it in any way ineffective.
The ability of demagogues & autocrats to surprise, to create a new scandal every day, is their superpower. It diminishes attention to the previous day's transgressions & normalizes them. It slowly numbs the senses, including outrage. Values are the only defense. Hold them dear.
Thankfully common sense won out this election. Normal people were tired of the extreme left, who hijacked the Democrat party, and their extreme views. Very excited about the next 18 months. Hold on to your sensitive butts because it's going to change fast.
So the Democratic Party should do whatever it takes to regain and maintain power *for the sake of it*? This is precisely what Geo Washington warned against, the factions becoming power-hungry entities whose exclusive goal is self-preservation w/o regard to the values they were meant to represent.
Asking the question will this harm us more than help us seems like a sell out but I get the point. It just seems like the end justifies the means kind of thinking, not recommended as an embraceable philosophy in the long term.
True, you gotta win to have the power to do what needs doing. No issue there but the article overlooks Trump's lying, appealing to fear and anger, racism and most of all misogyny.
Lying, racism, misogyny, emotional manipulation — not merely strategies to win but acts of power themselves. Power not a static possession but a dynamic force. These acts shape perceptions, control narratives, and influence behavior—power exists in saying and doing.
I think you might be wrong. Clearly, lying in everyone's face for decades, even with evidence standing right next to you, is how you get elected. The sky is red, the dems are just using their space lasers to make you see blue.
Satirist Will Durst said R’s wanted power like “Fuck you, give it to me, it’s mine” while D’s wanted to ensure that the power was dolphin safe and empowered the spotted owls. And after this election, I’d just be happy for a candidate to WANT something. Anything.
I’m so sad for that. The very least Biden could do is step down make Harris president for a month and he can’t have the number 47. He has written all over everything.
The Democratic base are GOOD/ BEAUTIFUL people who want freedom, equal justice for all BUT THE DEMOCRATIC ESTABLISHMENT is the biggest FASCIST republican oligarchy ENABLER on earth. It's so sad. Nothing is weaker than them.
I left the Democratic party when two Democrats took voting rights from Democrats because the republican oligarchy paid them. At this time, the COUP transferred to the Supreme Court and republican legislatures. Just like anyone with one brain cell could predict and did. A total betrayal of voters.
I'm left of center but not progressive. I've always been uncomfortable with the idea that progressives would be a huge majority if only the rest of us were better educated. Centrist can't be a pejorative term if we want to win elections. The left and center need to bargain to reach agreement.
Otherwise the GOP just has to find a couple of good wedge issues, like Gaza or trans rights, and divide and conquer. Dems better get straight with one another so we can say to the public, "we don't totally agree on everything but we're united in making lives better and preserving the constitution."
I see my autocorrect is having a field day, but I hope you get my gist. I'm trying to shed light but I'm sure I'll generate some heat too. Goes with speaking up
Lots of food for thought and reasoned debate here. Jentleson isn't saying we should throw our core constituencies under the bus, but dems need to show some tough love toward those groups who say theirs is the only one that matters and if they aren't first in line, screw maths rest of you
press's sanewashing of Trump wasn't Dems' fault, but as good as Harris is at not responding to gotcha questions, we lost control of the plot in the final weeks and let Trump control our messaging. It's hard to define but "Trump is bad" can't be your only selling point.
He also makes a great point about not taking positions in response to gotcha questions by the press that GOP can mine later for oppo research. Harris got really good at managing the media when she became the candidate. Control the narrative, win, do right by your voters, in that order
Those single issue scorecards by liberal and progressive lobbying orgs are a good place to start saying no. Coalition building is hard if you're not a cult like the GOP is, but smart, educated people should be able to learn to negotiate and practice give and take. Losing isn't a sign of integrity
But were the democrats not already doing this with the uncommitted voters? They were essentially told no and yet they're frequently brought up in the blame discussion. Trans issues were also never brought up by the Harris campaign yet somehow they're yet again at the forefront of this discussion
Walz was the figurehead for the campaign's position on trans issues. He had been a fierce advocate for years. I admired that at the time and I still do. We have to take a stand on trans folks' right to be themselves because it's the right thing to do while not letting the press and the GOP seize the
narrative and define what we stand for when we're the ones who should be doing that. Walz's response to the "Tampon Tim" BS was perfect:: get out of our bedrooms, you weirdos. Presto, he's redefined trans rights as an issue of personal freedom instead of the Dems catering to special interests.
I wish I could see more data, but I always felt the campaign was on a better track to win when Tim was still being Tim and Harris struck the same tone. They still took risks up to the end, like calling Trump the fascist that he is, but somehow the Dems lost control of the narrative. Definitely the
What a salient statement made by the author. Time to stop kowtowing to every special interest agenda and focus on viable coalitions that will let us win power.
I fear they never will.
We really need a new party but how do you make one that's not just a spoiler but for real.
Also worried voting will not happen again.
THIS ARTICAL IS ABSOLUTE BS!!! Every time the democrats lose another group gets scapegoated!Stop it!!no 1 ran on defund the police! If that was the case why tf did we win in 2020? &2022(the senate)let’s be real!RASCIM, MISOGYNY& MISINFORMATION WON!a lot of our ppl stayed home bc of Gaza.
&We lost MEN!Young men, Latino men..&we never had white men!But the dem ran on legit policies,the policies that ppl claim they care about.I feel like I’m in the fucking twilight zone!Explain how we won every senate race in the swing states&all the house races we won.we have to face the REAL PROB
Damn, those buggers seem to have figured a way to get around textise.... but the article actually loads for me freely after refreshing the page a couple times funny enough...
Agree.. The Democratic Party has focused on irrelevant issues that is of no concern to grassroots voters. Being too politically correct has to me become an annoyance.
This doesn't seem to jive with the fact that he hardly increased his base, especially nationally (+3%) but also in New York (+6%). He won mostly because Dem voters didn't show up (-9% and -16% respectively)...
I find it hard to take anything the NYT or WaPo have to say about why Harris lost when both were complicit in sanewashing Trump and ignoring Project 2025. Treating Trump as a serious candidate rather than the traitor, fraud and sexual abuser he is, was responsible for it more than what Harris did.
🎯🎯🎯This 100%. And nowhere in this article is misogyny or racism mentioned in an election with a Black/S.Asian woman. Trump won 2 elections vs women & lost to a white man. America is deeply misogynist & racist & ignoring that aspect in this election is intentional & unserious.
In this political climate with a Man who visualizes himself a dictator it is an absolute necessity to act against him and resist him on every single thing .. because its going to slow him down enacting his agenda ..
I'm done with the DNC. I will maintain my voter registration and continue to vote, but in LOCAL AND COUNTY ELECTIONS ONLY. The DNC didn't invest so much as ONE DOLLAR in my state, and the Democratic candidates who did run were all self-funded. I saw exactly ONE Harris commercial in three months.
I completely disagree Brian. Campaign strategy is not the answer. Until the systemic societal problem, (the increasing divide between rich and poor), is fixed, the incumbent will lose every 4 years.
See this post: https://stevehaddon.substack.com/p/yes-it-is-who-we-are
An interesting idea. We need these deep dives into what is missing. Own the podcast sphere. Connect with rural and working class voters in a meaningful way. Lots to do and so little time to save democracy.
I think trans athletes as example of article. It affects so few athletes, but many voters think Democrats are pushing too much “sexual” stuff in their awareness. Many don’t consider the issues and don’t want to hear about trans. GOP gleefully exploit this to pull voters to their side.
Imho, I think focus should be more on general trans issues, rather than trans athletes. Because I view ability for trans athletes to compete is low on the priority list vs active trans discrimination that prevent them from living in peace.
Harris lost because she was too tied to an unpopular administration and said she would have done nothing different. An administration that was handcuffed by Manchin and Sinema and Biden's inability to stand up to them.
Democracy should always be more than the cruel calculations of winning elections simply by deciding what is popular and will get votes.
Compromising integrity to gain mass support leads to cynicism and gamesmanship where people will be considered "lesser" by simply being out of vogue.
I've read the article, and it's straight from the failed campaign consultant, yet highly paid, hand book. Dems don't need to throw their constituents under the bus. They need to offer all Americans big, bold ideas and not get bogged down into how to pay for them. Speak to new generations.
Democratic pols listen to their corporate backed consultants on major economic initiatives which leaves them with trying to stitch together coalitions. Instead, they need a big, bold, public investment agenda that speaks to everyone. Single payer health care, new mass transit spending, education...
housing. Their problem is that by doing this, they turn off corporate donors who pay their consultants. So, they shy away. In this new era, people want big tangible things, not small time tax credits. Scaring people into voting for you does not work.
Why would we listen to anything the NY Times, or most mainstream media, has to say? I seem to recall them being complicit in handing this election to DT. I can't take political advice/criticism from them. Dems didn't do anything WRONG. The media worked hard for DT to get 4 more yrs of juicy content.
The Harris campaign wasn't flawless, but it was darned good. The blame goes to MSM for giving Trump a pass on everything; allowing him to lie w/o push back; not covering his age/obvious mental decline after skewering Biden; not addressing evil rhetoric; holding Harris to a higher standard. For $$.
After the NYT sane-washing normalization of the traitorous right wing I shun them. Their opinions are worthless to me. A pox on msm. BTC please just tell us the point. Don’t link to the despicable NYT!
I can't read it as I cancelled the NYT. They are as responsible as any major media for Trump...despite their editorial board's writings, their constant normalization of Trump, minutiae magnifying of Biden, and constant portrayal of Kamala "struggling with (insert group here)", helped Trump.
Are we saying that Trump’s outlandish appeal to a far-right ideology helped him win, but Dems cannot use the same strategy? It feels like we’re watching multiply marginalized folx get swept under the rug for the “greater good” and we need be quiet now for our own sake. It feels not so great tbh.
Funnily enough Bernie never made it because he was so bad at coalition building but mainstream dems we too beholden to it. It turns out you just need to be popular.
signed off on NYTimes and Washington Post and now seeing all kinds of recent hacks on FB sites turned pretty dark with anti-democracy repetition of posts
I'm reading someone's post lauding Machine's "There But For The Grace Of God," and I think that person should know about the album Going Places which is all August Darnell productions. I download the album cover but, "Where was that post, Threads, FB or Bluesky? Where'd it go?"
When will Democrats learn to destroy Fox News… band together!!!!! get everyone on blue sky to come up with a plan to get rid of Fox News!!! FOR GOOD We can do it y’all!! There’s enough of us that we can make them disappear like the f****** wind .. come on y’all let’s do this.
However, I do agree they must be taken down since the folks that watch it don't actually realize it's a Republican catering company. Grossly biased in favor of its politicians, and conservative causes, all while portraying the Dem Party in a very negative light.
If we spend the next couple years and focus 1 million people on destroying Fox News and playing dirty tricks like they do, we can get rid of Fox News. They are literally 80% of the problem. Now other little things might pop up in their place but nothing like they are now they should be illegal
It’s not just Fox anymore. RW media is larger than MSM & controls the narrative, often by spreading misinformation. Fox, Newsmax, OAN, Sinclair (local news), Elon/ X (spread lies viewed over a billion times during election), podcasters-some paid by Russia (Pool, Rubin, Johnson).
I somewhat agree, but it all stems from Fox News knocking them off the board would do a lot maybe not 80% but it would be a big portion at least 50% because all the other little right wing media outlets or nothing compared to the mega powerhouse of Fox News and we could make them go away as a whole
I am with you. But dems lost many votes with Latinos, who often listen to Hispanic news or digital outlets, & young men/new voters who largely follow YouTubers/podcasters such as Rogan. We also need candidates who can go onto Fox (and all outlets) & effectively communicate their message.
Please stop with this. Democrat voters don't want flat neoliberalism that eschews social issues. That's what Harris and co. attempted and it was a miserable failure. What we want is economic populism and our rights defended.
This is a terrible take from someone whose opinions I generally like and take seriously—can you see how you and other leaders in the party are negating the humanity of trans and queer people, immigrants, and other “groups” whose humanity is somehow unpalatable to disengaged, centrist voters? Yikes
LOL
"Jentleson began his career as a policy researcher and speechwriter for the John Kerry 2004 presidential campaign. He then served as Manager of Congressional Affairs at the Center for American Progress, speechwriter for the 2008 presidential campaign of John Edwards."
I'm right there with you! It's frustrating being in a party controlled by so many different interests groups, when we essentially all want the same things.
Sorry, any post-mortem of this election not highlighting misogyny & racism is disingenuous. Trump beat 2 women but lost to a white man. The point about 1 issue interest groups who don't care if they tank the Party if they don't get what they want is good, but misogyny & racism lost this election.
No doubt we need a course correction after figuring out what really happened in that election. I am still not convinced that there weren’t shenanigans involved and I hope someone is looking into
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The R machine is rich w big biz money. We don’t have that. Agree we need big change but we also need, sadly, a huge war chest.
Still no edit button 🙄
You take a step towards him, he takes a step back.
Meet me in the middle, says the unjust man.”
Why do you think the left cut them both off at the knees?
It’s bitter medicine but one of those issue examples discussed took some people I know and had them support Trump
It was such a stupid issue to be picking Trump for but it stuck out as “why are Dems doubling down on this”
Seeing as this publication is deeply racist and transphobic, I’m going to need you to clarify what thoughts of yours it puts down. Seem to be a few between the lines here, Brian.
I'll just assume it's yet another nyt manifesto against the progressives trying to absolve dems of blame for having no passion, no goals and no authentic or original thoughts and relying solely on obama/clinton campaign staff even to this day
It's just enough's enough already. I'm a confident guy but this just makes me feel so powerless and used.
Then they aged.
the way people argue for 2A the same as they argue for civil rights.
the same way abolition started long before the US, and wont end with me or you.
Demands like those tarnish the Democratic brand. That's how you end up with people liking policy proposals until they learn they're from Democrats
What Dems need to do is better messaging and more forceful pushback against republican propaganda/branding.
TLDR: “A winning strategy has to be more heterodox than the interest groups will allow.”
You will not out conservative the republican party. Ever. Period. And frankly will not deserve power.
There’s room to both double down on working class and human rights without being stuck in appeasement paralysis.
The GOP used to dogwhistle but now the use a microphone.😡
That screwed the swing state path to victory. Add to that the problems with inflation.
If this represents BTC's political ideas than he himself is problematic.
Identity politics does seem to be an issue for independents and centrists
The people who whine about identity politics are the ones who melt down over a Black super hero or female ghostbusters or tv shows with lgbt family members.
We either need to find better messaging or better ideas to run on.
And therein lies the problem.
The problem isn't the ideals (a majority of people prefer progressive policies); it's the messaging. Dems suck at this.
But Bernie Sanders didn't. His is simply "Justice". See how easy that is?
NO APOLOGIES
STOP EXPLAINING OURSELVES
NO MORE LIES, TYRANNY, OPPRESSION NO MATTER HOW MUCH WE LOOK LIKE A FIGHTER!!
Some subjects should not be monetized.
I don’t know the answer, but one of the reasons we lost is we have an ill informed electorate.
We just need to get tough and kick some butt.
Personally, I’m tired of being polite and demure.
That's the part that the idealists struggle with.
Whatever that hellscape is gonna look like. Fuck all that other nonsense just come back stronger
Now had they gotten better performance than Harris if they were also on a federal ticket…that would prove your point.
https://schiff.house.gov/news/press-releases/rep-schiff-joins-reps-stansbury-raskin-and-omar-in-introducing-bill-to-demand-supreme-court-accountability#:~:text=%E2%80%9CThe%20Judicial%20Ethics%20Enforcement%20Act,Office%20of%20the%20Inspector%20General.
We really need a new party but how do you make one that's not just a spoiler but for real.
Also worried voting will not happen again.
https://www.textise.net/
See this post:
https://stevehaddon.substack.com/p/yes-it-is-who-we-are
https://archive.ph/AWc3N
Whatever it is, we need that!
Compromising integrity to gain mass support leads to cynicism and gamesmanship where people will be considered "lesser" by simply being out of vogue.
More like unreality TV 😵💫
However, I do agree they must be taken down since the folks that watch it don't actually realize it's a Republican catering company. Grossly biased in favor of its politicians, and conservative causes, all while portraying the Dem Party in a very negative light.
Can anybody give me the gist of what the article's about?
"Jentleson began his career as a policy researcher and speechwriter for the John Kerry 2004 presidential campaign. He then served as Manager of Congressional Affairs at the Center for American Progress, speechwriter for the 2008 presidential campaign of John Edwards."