Can you clarify what you're talking about when you say infrastructure?
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Lara Putnam @lara_putnamI'm talking about the organizations, networks, rules, interaction spaces & channels that enable people to find ways to do politics together (=internal infrastructure) & to reach out & connect/persuade/engage people~voters more broadly (=external infrstrct) https://twitter.com/lara_putnam/status/1340342761053188098 …Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
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I'm sorry to be dense, but I find that kind of abstract. Like say I have ten million dollars in western Iowa, what do I fund?
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I understand Lara’s argument (maybe wrongly) as linked to a broader set of claims that the big problem with the Democratic Party is that it has become disconnected from local organizing - see further https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/02/09/learn-about-democratic-partys-future-look-what-latino-organizers-did-arizona/?itid=lk_inline_manual_16 … andhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/11/10/what-happened-that-blue-wave/ …
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I'm curious to hear about it from Lara since she has spent time working with specific groups and tactics. The national conversation about it tends to be impossibly abstract, conducted by people with no practical experience but a lot of opinions about what should be done
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Absolutely - and Lara is just great on this in a way that few scholars are. One of the pieces that I linked to is by my colleague
@hahriehan - I’m biased, but she too is deeply engaged in the actual work of figuring things out with people who do this for a living.3 replies 0 retweets 4 likes -
The wall that I ran into in 2020 in particular was that every race had been effectively nationalized, down to county water commissioner. There was no room for local party building. The persuasion issue came down to asking people to change their identity, which is a hard sell.
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I’m certainly one of the hurlers on the ditch but as I understand the debate there are two intersecting problems - building/recruiting/changing on the ground and providing better information to the top to minimize screwups. The first _may_ be a little more readily solvable?
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I like this^ formulation & it highlights the fact that it would be helpful even to get the "the top" to recognize that a stronger & more dispersed set of structures that channel the voices of those doing politics in different spaces would be *useful* as well as uncomfortable
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I really apologize for being dense, but while the formulation appeals to me, I don't understand what the *structures* are. State parties? Kiwanis clubs? Church groups? Book club? And how does that work where the partisan divide runs inside marriages, let alone between neighbors?
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For four years I've heard everyone (including myself) say we need to build infrastructure and capacity, but the concrete shape this takes in Ephrata PA or Fort Dodge IA (let alone Nebraska or Wyoming) still escapes my understanding
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