The "in touch with the public" is exactly it. This is not simply a problem of bad communications strategy - it's a problem of shriveled capacity for feedback, and fear of the political disruption that remedying the problem would involve.
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Democrats thinking that the answer to their failures is "we didn't have a popular podcast" just is... so Democrats. It's looking at the superficial, not the substance. It's the kind of decision a committee makes, not someone in touch with the public.
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Dems can’t back unions or universal income without running straight into “line must go up; the middle class must be forever in debt”
Meaning it still just looks like in a year where everyone was mad at incumbents, so were we.
Or were the House Democrats just way more in-touch-with-the-public than other Democrats??
I know it is human nature to not admit mistakes, but come the fuck on, America. That's fewer than 1 in 25 Trump voters expressing buyer's remorse.
I just think think this obsession with making it "The Democrats'" mistake is silly - if understandable.
And this idea that the Democrats need to mimic Trump tactics to stop him is vile.
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