A mini thread on the whole “progressives cost Democrats!” argument: Progressives had an economic message. Moderates did not. It was the most imp issue for a plurality of voters - 35%, then 82% of them backed Trump. (1/?)
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Moderates didn’t have an economic msg from leaders & top of ticket. In a vacuum, message that’s out there - progressive one - will come to the fore. If moderate voters rejected moderate candidates based on the progressive economic msg, its bc moderates didn’t have one. (3/?)
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Democratic leaders incorrectly believed they could run solely on Trump backlash & healthcare. Then, they didn’t even really talk about it much. Just 11% of voters picked healthcare as top issue this year. It was a miscalculation. (4/?)
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We’ll know more about which voters showed up this year in time but every exit poll indicates that progressives managed to turn their people out - they actually organized! - while Democrats overall/Biden will get roughly same % of White working-class support as in 2016. (5/?)
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Progressives got their people energized IN SPITE OF up ballot races often not appealing to their ppl & it helped up ballot; moderates definitively did not, and now somehow want to blame progressives. How do nat’l democrats keep forgetting IT IS ALWAYS ABOUT THE ECONOMY? (6/6)
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