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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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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Does Lee Carter count? He defeated the Republican House Majority Whip in the Virginia House of Delegates in 2018 on a socialist platform.
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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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