I am afraid of the mindset that says we would win the election if unfair things didn't keep happening to us. Some sixty million Americans want Trump to stay in office, and we have to find a way to talk to them, because they will still be there in 2021 no matter what the outcome
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I don't think the situation where a third of the country inhabits an alternative propaganda reality centered around Fox, Hannity and the like is tenable. I also have no idea how to move people out of it. But that has to be the central political project of the left long term
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The short-term reality is that we have to win elections in an environment where there is a built in structural 3% handicap against us, and an incredibly effective propaganda machine that makes many people unreachable. It is incredibly frustrating and unfair, but that's the truth
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I understand the temptation to say "screw it" and run left. Why must *we* always be the ones to compromise? Doesn't that reward the bullying? If anyone running on democratic socialism wins a Republican CD, in any state, I promise to hoist the red flag. But I don't think it works
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In return, I ask people to look at evidence, not their feelings, and if bold, unapologetic progressivism doesn't win us power, grit their teeth and make common cause with the candidates who can actually win.
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Also, I can't overstress the importance of volunteering on any campaign, anywhere in the US, that talks to a variety of voters on both sides of the ideological chasm. I promise you it will be fascinating and unsettling, because you'll come out understanding less than you started
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You make interesting points but what if we made an app for it? Hear me out...
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