If Hillary Clinton had won the presidency in 2016, there’s a high likelihood that Neera Tanden would have been her White House chief of staff. She has a message for you.
If you go to her Twitter page, you’ll see that she has a pinned Tweet. Presumably, it’s been there since she first posted it in July 2019.
It’s interesting that she chose Goldwater. I guess that’s the most recent Democratic landslide but it was a temporary victory. Goldwater’s troops came roaring back and by 1981 they were running Washington DC. A better example would be Herbert Hoover in 1932.
Democrats and progressives can get very nostalgic for the good old days when FDR was winning landslide victories and implementing the New Deal. But, remember, how many of FDR’s supporters have left the party to side with the Goldwater/Reagan movement? Without those voters, Roosevelt doesn’t win in such convincing fashion or have such robust majorities in Congress.
The conservative movement doesn’t die until a huge number of those voters come back to the Democrats. When you’re looking for a historical drubbing, you can’t get picky about who votes with your side.
That doesn’t mean you pander to bigots or embrace putrid policies. It just means that you give people permission to support you. Some people need to be pushed away, if only to help you define your values and platform, but the actual number in this category cannot be very big.
If you’re spending your time policing Twitter, you’re not part of the solution.
Yes, but the issue is how do you welcome the racists that you are talking about, when the base is African Americans, particularly African American women? Like Champaign said….the African American community saved Bidenās ass, now itās time to make that right. Thatās going to be a woman of color as VP.
Those racists you want back in the fold are not going to like that. Thatās when we will get the āthe working class just does not connect with Kamala Harrisā takes from the media.
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I love Kamala, but ‘for the win’ how do we convince Michelle Obama to accept the Vice Presidency?
I kinda like Stacey Abrams. I think she could literally kick Trumps ass if he walked up behind her and snorted at her on stage like he did with Hillary.
We donāt need racists for sure. So keep them out besides I think they will self select.
I start from the assumption that most people are racist and the ones that aren’t are already pretty firmly in the Democratic camp. I’d never put out a welcome mat for a racist, but they already make up at least half of the votes the Democrats are getting. When I say that you give people permission to vote for you, I mean that you find ways to get people to say yes rather than no, and if someone is rejecting Trump, then obviously there are things more important for them than being a racist asshole. He’s got that vote locked up.
When I talk about not policing Twitter, I don’t really have race in mind. The majority of the things that progressive left hates about Clinton and Biden (and even Obama) are either not about race or are only about race in some tangential or secondary way.
Neo-liberal policing is more of a problem than calling out people for being racist pricks. But to beat Trump in a Goldwater-sized landslide, you’re going to need the support of a lot of very unenlightened people, and that’s just how it is.
Racists for Obama
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/michaeltomasky/2008/oct/18/barackobama-pennsylvania
So we need to snag a few enlightened republicans or few idiots who see Trump as a terrible human being. I found two such where I live.They are fed up with the lies. so many every day and have grown weary of him. And believe it or not they want health care improved, not for them since they are on medicare, but for the children and family. At least they say so to me, maybe it is all hogwash. But I am hopeful.
If we want a landslide, we need about 6 in 10 voters to support Biden and fewer than 4 in 10 to support Trump. Sounds easy, but at least 60 percent of the electorate is deplorable in one degree or another. Either they’re appallingly disengaged and incurious, or they’re outright hateful or they’re 100 percent locked in for the GOP or they’re so high on some kind of rancid religion that they prefer Trump to any liberal or everyone they know and whose approval they desire is convinced that Fox News is the gospel truth.
You want to win over just enough of these people to win by 20 points and call yourself the next FDR or LBJ. It’s damn difficult to do, and it can’t be done if you don’t give as many as possible permission to vote for you. That means you don’t run a narrow ideological campaign, but a campaign for decency, competence and inclusion.
Inclusion—a word when used here that means something like “the 10-20% of 2016 Trump voters who are considering a vote for Biden get the strong and clear sense from Biden’s campaign (paid and earned media, canvassers, phone bankers, other staff and volunteers) that they’re being treated with *respect*, even if they they don’t have the ‘right’ political views”. (Not to put word’s in Martin’s mouth.)