2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: So-what does anyone here think it would take those who voted Trump this time... [View all]mythology
(9,527 posts)would do some serious harm. If all of a sudden 20 million people find themselves without insurance, or Republicans cause premiums to skyrocket due to trying to keep the parts of the ACA people like, while doing away with parts people think they don't like.
Also I think if there is a terrorist attack and Trump does something stupid (either stumble into a major war or tweet about how tough he is while doing nothing).
I think it would really help if Democrats could develop some sort of simple easy to get concept for what our vision for the future is. Clinton had it's the economy stupid, Bush had compassionate conservatism, Obama had yes we can and we are the ones we've been waiting for, Trump had make America great again. I think in the social media age, we need something that fits in a tweet, on a bumper sticker, that's sticky in people's heads. As Bush and Trump proved, it doesn't matter if your concept is idiotic and you have no intention of living up to it.
I think we as a party need to be better focused on how we want to move the U.S. forward. We have some amazing challenges, not just health care, but climate change, population growth, shifting to renewable energy and how that impacts our infrastructure (what happens when we don't need coal, oil or gas stations for example), the radical change automation is having on our labor market, globalization, etc.