Look, I’m all for getting the messaging right but this discourse prevents people from acknowledging that the Dems are just completely overwhelmed by the right’s bullshit infrastructure at all levels—partisan press, social, the influencesphere, local.
I really feel like more people need to constructively engage with this! You can think the moderation/centrism discourse is often braindead (as I do!) but the center left really needs a pretty robust convo about what winning, say, an Iowa or Kansas or Texas or Ohio senate seat would look like.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: CRT, DEI, transphobia and all the rest of their nonsense aren’t brilliant messages. They convinced people that crime, the border and inflation were out of control when they were not.
We can’t even convince voters that Trump is a right-winger.
The way to win in Texas is to build a Time Machine, go back to the 90s, smack a bunch of liberal donors upside the head and tell them that we’ll have a fascist game show host in the White House in 30 years if they don’t invest in media.
May 14, 2025 04:08
