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Do you think progressives would support moderate candidates if it meant Democrats could win meaningful national elections?
People want meaningful, tangible, life affecting change and moderate democrats aren’t going to get us there. They’re going to say what they always say “well, not right now.”
Ezra Klein (not that I put any stock into him) says Dems shouldn’t run pro-abortion candidates right now. BUT. Pro-abortion candidates are polling well and winning and over half the country wants abortion legalized. You can’t run a “we’re not them” campaign and you shouldn’t run a “we’re them adjacent” campaign either. You should run on what the people want and make it happen.
Progressive candidates are winning around the country.. would you consider Cuomo a moderate? Cuz Mamdani is wooping his ass. Without moderate endorsement too.
I’d take Governor Pritzkern for prez over Cuban or Mayor Pete or Newsome; the latter two of which are gunning for the presidency obviously. Cuban is just another billionaire who’s gonna side with billionaires.
Establish dems are trying to defend a system from Donald trump that most voters feel doesn’t work for them. That was the main reason Kamala didn’t connect. I don’t think a lot of voters wanted Trump as they wanted something/anything different and he was going to give that to him.
Progressive candidates like that amazing guy in Maine are who the DNC should get behind but they are so rigidly hierarchical and establishment that they never will embrace a grass-roots effort until it becomes Obama 08 level of undeniable
America shouldn’t be run like a business so fuck off with Cuban or any billionaire. What business actually runs the way you’d want a government to emulate? I believe in a strong, robust federal government that picks up the slack that the private sector drops because it isn’t beholden to profits or shareholders
I think the Dems need to fix 5 things to get support:
1. Identify an issue and drive a solution. Jon Stewart is correct, stop strategizing and start pushing for the answer not what is possible.
1b. In terms of housing, I still think the Dems should identify a few small towns and say, "Hooray, you won the lotto we are going to make you a city. Pour in money to develop both housing and bring in businesses." We can't all live in LA or NYC, but who says there can't be a big city designed to be walkable in central California or Eureka can't be turned into a big walkable city in NorCal?
2. Make companies afraid to push back. I don't like how Trump has done it by interfering with individual companies, but we can't go back to letting them operate without repercussions IF the Dems get power again.
3. Marketing. Trump and his band of podcaster Fox news hosts are going all in on cruelty because the fight isn't small vs big gov, it is social state vs police state. There will be hate, but let's make dramatic 50 second clips of people getting to go to the doctor, kids eating breakfast, people enjoying the streets of Portland or SF or Chicago. Make 50 second clips of the problems of rural America next to either the solution or a conservative politician fighting against the obvious solution.
3b. And, I'll continue to get hate, but I've said Cuban would be a great counter to Trump's claims. He is everything Trump wishes he was. He makes Trump look small, weak, and stupid on the all the things the conservatives want to pretend he is strong on. There is no comparison between the two men. He undoes all of Trump's strengths. If Vance is running, I'd say someone else should be the face of the dem campaign. I just think Cuban is a great counter to Trump.
As for his policies, I doubt they'd be my first choice. I just want him to be a figurehead for the campaign against Trump. An image for the administration who does the real work to stand behind. Policy debates don't work. And both parties are equally uninformed. 42% of Dems and 42% of Republicans can't identify a single right guaranteed by the First Amendment.
3c. Co-ordinated messaging. The right picks a topic and all the people from the AM hosts to podcaster to FOX zero in on it. Do the same thing.
4. Just do shit and wait for the Supreme Court to say no. It might be illegal, lol obviously this doesn't matter.
5. Project 2029 needs to be developed. Set the goals and outline the means to get there. Musk being gone is good because it stops the direct and indiscriminate carnage, but the guy who wrote Project 2025 is charge of cutting the gov now. He has an outlined planned of how he is going to move America backwards and make it worse for all of us.
6. Give fair trials for every single one of Trump's admin who engaged in illegal behavior and broke the law. Trump might be immune, but people who are not swearing an oath to the Constitution but to a leader, are doing it wrong. They need to be removed and if they broke the law given the opportunity to defend themselves in court.
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