After 30 years of desperate, sweaty efforts to look and talk like Real Heartland Americans during which the only wildly personally popular Democrat was a law professor from Chicago named Barack Obama, maybe it's worth asking: maybe Dems are barking up the wrong tree? Maybe that's not how to win?
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Don't look for charismatic people that can win people's vote and then force policy changes they don't like. Look for good ideas and practical ways to implement them. The good candidates will follow.
I mean, I don’t really disagree with the thesis. Both FDR and Reagan had broad appeal, and one was a patrician and the other was a Hollywood actor. The key is to be a good communicator.
I mean, when you imagine what a real Texan looks and sounds like, doesn't it come across exactly like Ted Cruz ?
How do you figure 30 years?
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figure out what they believe in
They worship him despite how ineffectual he is and how much of a drag he is because he makes the right people mad.
Ipso facto, I’m not convinced that we believe in them
Whatever it takes I guess, but oat milk is really good stuff.
Even Cooper scans as culturally Midwestern.
For better or worse, Trump taught voters it's possible to expect candidates who speak what they actually think.
He was doing great until some total idiots on the campaign put him in the deep freezer for no reason whatsoever.
Or rather, someone people cannot accept that you are. Ex: although factually true people could not treat Harris as an gun owner
No one, and I mean no one, can truly accept the Democratic party as actually (in hearts and minds) anti-immigrant. If people hear about Biden/Harris immigration policy, they either 1) don't believe it 2) see Dems as willing to sell out anyone for a vote
There was no lesson to be learned. Any "lesson learned" is likely to be incorrect, and politically harmful.
The one blip here is Biden beating Trump but I think that the Covid election was pretty anomalous.
Also, do you remember the 2008 recession under a 2-Term Republican with approvals in the 20s?