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Pete DiLeo's avatar

"Democrats keep obsessing over winning over a voting bloc that hates them, while simultaneously alienating the voters who are the engine that makes the party go."

This.

The Democrats (and the "liberal" media) always operate as if the U.S. is a center Right or far Right country and that Dems are the minority, even when they win elections. They operate from a position of defense all the time, rather than confidently leading on anything. Political sentiment is also highly irrational, so American voters hold all sorts of contradictory views. But on most issue polling you find popular support for things that "pragmatic" Dems never try and do anything about because it's "unrealistic", i.e., gun control.

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Tana Ganeva's avatar

Someone needs to write a book about the psychotic grift of political consulting. Because it's a made-up job, their only "expertise" is rooted in the past, so they're constantly feeding their clients narratives from the past (that were also wrong even in the past, but absurd given how quickly social media changes the political landscape). Dems should 100,000% reframe immigration as a net good instead of trying to out-Fascist the Republicans (they cannot).

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