I worry about disinformation operations, election shenanigans, and all the rest, but the thing we really have to worry about is making an excellent case to American voters, including some Trump voters, in enough numbers to beat the Electoral College and win the Senate
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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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Some people on the left seem to think the only thing the right did was keep going right and dragging the electorate with them, ignoring all the work that went into building a massive media empire & ideological pipelines to make it possible.
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And how nondiverse the right is. No, you’re not going to drag “everyone in country except white right-wing Christians” to the left based on identity appeals.
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"Why must *we* always be the ones to compromise? Doesn't that reward the bullying?" - No but that has been the Democratic recipe for failure for 20 years.
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Centrism is a function of the overton window, nothing more.
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I mean it isn't so much about running a dem socialist against the right in a GOP CD as it is about moving the Dems left. Why must we always be the ones to compromise? Dan Lipinski and Rahm Emanuel should not exist.
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Ooh, I'll take a look! But I'm saying any Federal congressional district, that's my test for going full revolutionary (which I would do with gusto)
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