Personally I think that the problem with popularists like MattY isn't that they're recommending politically savvy concessions that are unpalatable to those evil, purity-obsessed libs. The actual problem is that the ideology they advocate for is essentially Starmerism, which is a colossal failure.
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not a unqualified MattY fan at all, but people have rose tinted glasses about how ugly many of the substantive policy concessions that held together things like the New Deal coalition were at times. the stuff done to keep southern democrats in the tent was very grim at times.
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the Republicans "worked the refs" for decades, we gotta do that, and maybe also butter the right people up. I share Biden's personal distaste for the media but he still should have sucked it up and gladhanded them
Hilary Clinton would won the presidency by simply declaring "I WILL put a taco truck on every corner! YOU! DESERVE! A TACO!"
-shut the fuck up about Project 2029 (Abundance) until actually in office
-never go into specifics about anything
-tell low info voters their lives suck, specifically, and you feel their pain, non-specifically
-get elected
-do Project 2029
https://nypost.com/2024/11/27/us-news/harris-camps-own-polling-never-showed-vp-leading-trump-team-surprised-by-reports-showing-her-ahead-sr-adviser/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_United_Kingdom_general_election