Democratic activist delivers straight talk to his party on long term strategy (msnbc.com)I saw the interview then and cheered. Please..all. listen to this. Here is my take on it and how I see it being applied. The gist is to look at issues of universal concern to more than one demographic...all Blacks and Hispanics and Whites do not like crime; all want a better living and education. higher paying jobs and small business support, and end the scourge of fentanyl. They all like being treated fairly by justice and government policies..in a democracy where they have a say, free from one-party or one-person ruler edicts. They oppose foreign governments that threaten our national independence and want to control our thoughts and government policies.They all see that government has a role to play that can make it easier for them to succeed, but not as a suppressor and intruder into their private lives on behalf of some group of religious believers. They all condemn hatred of others not like them, either as being ugly and antiAmerican, or divisive, pitting one group against another.. They all want a better future for themselves and their kids that is safe from gun violence and an opportunity to succeed. In short, the more universal the message, the more Democrats will expand their power beyond their base. The more jargon is avoided (autocracy v democracy as a slam on Trump) and put into words of aspiration and inspiration affecting their lives, the better. .. There is nothing wrong with targeted messages to specific demographics, but those are subsets to the policies that affect across the board of the diverse demographics that make more, including swing and independents, the potential supporters of party politics. What unites these diverse groups is where the emphasis should be. but it gets lost in messages targeted at a specific constituency. It just must be in a more appealing and universal context consistently and not left up to voters to assume there are deductive conclusions that may or may not apply to them. It seems like the Dems are the divisive ones, and keep messaging by demographic segment. They keep saying: here is what we do for you African Americans..end police brutality and voting suppression. Here is what we do for you, Latinos,, er maybe more humane and liberal border policies and DACA (which are not that popular among a segment of the Latino population). Here is what we do for old people, protect social security and medicare. Here is what we do for younger people: environment and lower student debt. Here is what we do for gay people....oppose DeSantis. Here is what we do for women: support choice. Biden has done a good job of focusing on the big demographics...middle class and less so the poor. It isn't class warfare, but there is a way to accent the positives, and secondarily make the negatives a contrast with the GOP policies. He has done it.
The most beloved GOP fall back whenever any attack on Democrats fail to get traction is "democrats are soft on crime"/ Rep. Jim Jordan tried to damage the credibility of the New York district attorney's prosecution of Donald Trump in the Stormy Daniels saga by holding committee hearings in NYC to paint the DA as being soft on crime. Aside from Jordan's attempt to make the DA the bad guy, he got the egg on the face instead with a variety of journalists fact-checking disclosing his own district had a higher per capita crime rate than New York. https://pennstate.forums.rivals.com/threads/jim-jordans-rural-district-has-higher-crime-rate-than-nyc.334005/
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