Tea Party is a very successful movement. It had a real grassroots—and it was smart, strategic. But it also got funded. "Resistance"? Not so.
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Replying to @zeynep
2. A lot easier to build a movement around cuts -- 'anti-tax' 'anti-regulation' -- vs. building -- single payer healthcare
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Replying to @mattquint
If we can't build a movement around what's going on now, I don't know what to say...
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Replying to @zeynep
I'm not saying it can't be built. Just saying the Tea Party didn't sprout over night. It was built over a decade before it 'went public'
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Replying to @mattquint
Don't disagree; but here we are. So more urgent to jump start best we can muddle through.
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Replying to @zeynep
I'm with you. The key is picking the issue(s). Single payer health care (despite meaning tax increases) may be it.
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Replying to @mattquint
Expanding healthcare, taxes on the rich & higher minimum wage are all issues that are broadly popular even across the political spectrum.
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Replying to @zeynep
And Hillary and the DNC pushed all three of these when campaigning... it didn't work -- I'll argue because of a lack of charisma
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Replying to @mattquint
I live in NC; I did not see a single ad by the Clinton campaign on any of those issues. Not a single one. Research says they didn't push.
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Replying to @zeynep
So there were marketing failures, not necessarily policy failures
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Yes, and yes and yes. There is a study; Clinton barely ran policy ads. Close to zero. Unprecedentedly little. Trump ran policy ads. Lots.
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