Right now, you have House members who literally have never had to worry about winning the vote of a Republican or true independent voter lecturing candidates in districts that voted for Donald Trump about what went wrong. It’s not a useful dynamic.
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Replying to @JamesSurowiecki
AOC really isn’t saying that. Her remarks were almost entirely about the nuts and bolts of running competent campaigns. Her remarks are being misconstrued. Her point: you’re running shitty centrist campaigns you might otherwise win.
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The first part of his tweet thread was. But she explicitly said that messaging was not a problem. "When it comes to “Defund” & “Socialism” attacks, people need to realize these are racial resentment attacks. You’re not gonna make that go away. You can make it less effective."
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She doesn't think "Defund the police" was a problem for centrists because it's a bad slogan (and policy) that most Americans don't support. She thinks it's because centrist candidates didn't confront the problem head-on. OK: let's see how that works in true swing districts.
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No. That’s not what she said. She doesn’t want them to run that campaign in their districts. She wants them post hoc not to blame leftists who run those elsewhere. Rather, she wants them to run more competent campaigns that fit their districts. Big difference.
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I understand that's what she's saying, and I agree with her about the need to improve nuts-and-bolts stuff. But in saying that, she's saying that these politically toxic ideas aren't actually that politically toxic. Which she has very little evidence of and no experience with.
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My point is that she is not suggesting these are winning ideas in these districts (she used to think that, she doesn’t anymore I gather). So running such candidates in a few districts, as you suggest, wouldn’t address the crux of her critique.
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The JD/Sunrise memo is pretty explicit that Democrats should run on a strong left (economic and racial) agenda in districts across the country.
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Activists advocate party to be more like what they want is not news. Question is in light of repeated failures, why is there no questioning of party leadership & all blame being cast on activists who are marginal to party. There has been zero introspection from party leaders
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Because it’s bizarre to say “repeated failure” when the only reason Dems control the House is because moderates flipped purple and red districts all over the country in 2018.
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They won a thermostatic elections against historically unpopular opponent in 2018. Democratic party performance below a presidential level since 2010 counts as repeated failures.
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Historically unpopular nationally, not necessarily in these districts. He wasn’t on the ballot in 2018. He was in 2020.
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