Excellent interview with @davidshor. "The nationalizing of elections means whenever any elected Democrat goes out and says something that’s unpopular, unless the rest of the party very forcefully pushes back every Democrat will face an electoral penalty."https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/11/david-shor-analysis-2020-election-autopsy-democrats-polls.html …
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ah yes donald trump that's the guy
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But that's the thing - in 2016, Trump was seen by most voters as a moderate. Certainly much more moderate than Republicans as a whole. By 2018, he was seen as much more conservative, and the GOP did very badly in the midterms.
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The most likely theory to me is that this strategy attracted Lincoln project types for whom it was probably never on the table that they would've voted democrats down ballot.
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It's not just that. Impeachment and the obsession with Russia focused attention on Trump the person, and on his personal corruption, his personal flaws, etc. Even though the GOP supported him, he was separated more than ever from the party.
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But this wasn't inevitable. It was helped by actual messaging decisions made by Democrats who wanted, in both 2016 and 2020, to separate Trump from GOP. With bad downballot results.
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