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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Replying to @JamesSurowiecki @davidshor
And yet the GOP ran QAnon candidates (some who won) without apparent penalty.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @davidshor
Can you name them? They're nobodies. The thing about the Dems is that their most high-profile figures are associated with more extreme positions.
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There's a high profile Republican who often tweets some pretty extreme sounding things, can't remember the name. Big guy. Blond hair. Always hanging around with his daughter.
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Yes, but Biden's whole message was that Trump was NOT a high profile Republican but an anomaly in the system and that once you get rid of Trump, GOP would return to normal. That's a message giving voters permission to split ballot. Which they did.
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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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Sure. But given the election results, I don't see what your recommended strategy would have been. Downplay his personal failings, and paint him as a generic Republican? That seems more likely to have led to him being re-elected than to dragging down downballot GOP candidates.
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Painting him as a normal Republican who serves the interest of the rich -- a vulgar Mitt Romney with bad hair.
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