the fundamental issue for the next Presidential election cycle—assuming Trump is both still alive and his minions aren’t trying to pull some blatantly unconstitutional shit like the 3rd term Boebert already called for—is for how to combat the lure of a strongman with a simple message of “I can fix it”.
before you get up in arms and point out logically how he can’t and how his policies are counterproductive, don’t. that’s the whole point: that he’s wrong doesn’t matter.
it needs to be from someone with enough charisma and verbal sparring ability to shut Trump down face to face. it needs to be a simple message for a simple populace who have legit grievances but who don’t want to be lectured of how Democratic policies would help them in the long run. they want their grievances addressed now, regardless of whether that’s logical or feasible at all.
and it needs to not conflict with the underlying, stubborn streak of American individualism. even if some or many of these issues would truly be best addressed by government it can’t be sold that way else it’ll turn off all the temporarily embarrassed millionaires just waiting for their bootstraps to lift them up any day now.
it’s not an easy problem. but this is what we must solve, not filing away at the edges over whether Kamala’s campaign should have embraced this or that subgroup who weren’t going to show up anyway out of their own pique. we need to win the majority of people, and the majority of people are going to pull the lever for the party offering simple solutions unless we offer them a more attractive alternative on that same level.
before you get up in arms and point out logically how he can’t and how his policies are counterproductive, don’t. that’s the whole point: that he’s wrong doesn’t matter.
it needs to be from someone with enough charisma and verbal sparring ability to shut Trump down face to face. it needs to be a simple message for a simple populace who have legit grievances but who don’t want to be lectured of how Democratic policies would help them in the long run. they want their grievances addressed now, regardless of whether that’s logical or feasible at all.
and it needs to not conflict with the underlying, stubborn streak of American individualism. even if some or many of these issues would truly be best addressed by government it can’t be sold that way else it’ll turn off all the temporarily embarrassed millionaires just waiting for their bootstraps to lift them up any day now.
it’s not an easy problem. but this is what we must solve, not filing away at the edges over whether Kamala’s campaign should have embraced this or that subgroup who weren’t going to show up anyway out of their own pique. we need to win the majority of people, and the majority of people are going to pull the lever for the party offering simple solutions unless we offer them a more attractive alternative on that same level.
