You need to build back up the missing parts of the stool if there is to be a chance. 2018 election is next and it will play locally.
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Replying to @zeynep
It will not play locally, it will be a nationalized election. Democrats lack a vision, not local infrastructure.
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Replying to @matthewstoller
I don't disagree they lack a vision *at the national level*. You might be surprised at how much vision I encounter locally.
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Replying to @zeynep @matthewstoller
The monopoly stuff? Comes up. Unfairness? Comes up. And they absolutely lack local infrastructure outside of big deep blue cities.
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Replying to @zeynep @matthewstoller
And look, Ossoff underperformed Clinton. Why? Even with so much national attention, congressional races are local affairs.
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Replying to @zeynep @matthewstoller
Comes down to candidate, infrastructure, messaging, vision. But plays out locally. How do you underperform Clinton after last few months?
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Replying to @zeynep
You try to pretend like Trump and Pelosi don't exist and offer no vision, which is what Ossoff did.
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Replying to @matthewstoller
Obviously a poor candidate. But recruiting good candidates is really a local thing, at least for congress. You need a bench with depth.
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Replying to @zeynep
I agree, but this is all part of a vision problem. Dem elites like Skocpol - and she is one of the worst - want puppets to do what they say.
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Replying to @matthewstoller
I am not going to get into a Skocpol personal argument; my point is that the point is correct: muscles of democracy have atrophied.
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The left/liberal side has so little local infrastructure. Not so for the right/conservative side. Result: every level of power is R.
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Replying to @zeynep
Nope. In 2009 every lever of power was held by Democrats. Why did they screw that up? Did they not have enough local infrastructure?
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Replying to @matthewstoller
Actually, yes. Not withstanding the vision thing, they absolutely defunded local infrastructure and literally crushed organizing.
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