Until Trump, many of the current voters you speak of didn't vote. He changed the game and the public discourse/narratives. The Dems have not responded to that by changing the game/debate to their terms and getting new voters to the polls like Trump did.
The Dems need to decide if they want to continue to allow the …
Until Trump, many of the current voters you speak of didn't vote. He changed the game and the public discourse/narratives. The Dems have not responded to that by changing the game/debate to their terms and getting new voters to the polls like Trump did.
The Dems need to decide if they want to continue to allow the Rep's to control/dictate the debates vs "spur the public". Right now the Dems are not dominating the public square and it feels like they have consciously or unconsciously let the Republicans drive discourse and as a result the Dems are losing the public narratives.
Personally, I'd like to see the Dems take the Reps on on topics from sensible immigration (legal immigration, secure borders AND immigration as vital to US economic growth), freedom of speech vs book banning, parental rights/input and the contradictory positions on parent's rights for input on books/FLs anti gay laws vs no parental rights for those with transgender kids, creating citizen vigilante/Gestapo cultures thru legislation, cruelty (vs compassionate conservatism) to women/trans/gays, climate change as a national security issue vs just a better environment and more. There just seems so many things to also call out as "conservatives used to believe x...now they believe the opposite"..as a lot of today's "conservatives" have no clue what traditional conservatives believe (or used to believe)
Unfortunately I seems like the Dems have 2 problems--no effective communicators for the party and a tendency to propose alternatives from the more progressive/noncentrist wing such that voters feel they're having to pick from two extremes. Wouldn't it be great if someone would argue for AND proposals (e.g. border security AND an immigration policy that encourages people to come to the US) vs OR proposals. TX is a classic example. The over reach of so many laws passed in TX you'd think would spur somebody to step up to call out the crazy and campaign on normalcy/centrist positions. But instead, there appear no such viable candidates for the top offices.
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Until Trump, many of the current voters you speak of didn't vote. He changed the game and the public discourse/narratives. The Dems have not responded to that by changing the game/debate to their terms and getting new voters to the polls like Trump did.
The Dems need to decide if they want to continue to allow the Rep's to control/dictate the debates vs "spur the public". Right now the Dems are not dominating the public square and it feels like they have consciously or unconsciously let the Republicans drive discourse and as a result the Dems are losing the public narratives.
Personally, I'd like to see the Dems take the Reps on on topics from sensible immigration (legal immigration, secure borders AND immigration as vital to US economic growth), freedom of speech vs book banning, parental rights/input and the contradictory positions on parent's rights for input on books/FLs anti gay laws vs no parental rights for those with transgender kids, creating citizen vigilante/Gestapo cultures thru legislation, cruelty (vs compassionate conservatism) to women/trans/gays, climate change as a national security issue vs just a better environment and more. There just seems so many things to also call out as "conservatives used to believe x...now they believe the opposite"..as a lot of today's "conservatives" have no clue what traditional conservatives believe (or used to believe)
Unfortunately I seems like the Dems have 2 problems--no effective communicators for the party and a tendency to propose alternatives from the more progressive/noncentrist wing such that voters feel they're having to pick from two extremes. Wouldn't it be great if someone would argue for AND proposals (e.g. border security AND an immigration policy that encourages people to come to the US) vs OR proposals. TX is a classic example. The over reach of so many laws passed in TX you'd think would spur somebody to step up to call out the crazy and campaign on normalcy/centrist positions. But instead, there appear no such viable candidates for the top offices.