2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: What would re-establish trust here? [View all]JHan
(10,173 posts)She consistently got good ratings from Politifact: - and their fact checking verifiable and accurate.
What she was bad at was getting her message to pierce through noise and connecting to people in the Rust Belt. They still remembered what she said about coal, some of them hated her for more trivial reasons, but her narrow narrow loss there doesn't tell me she was hated, rather a lil extra push was needed. She also faced a vicious smear campaign from all sides. I saw "Liberals" sharing right wing talking points all year - till we got the absurd equivocation of trump and clinton being the same,
Also would be great for folks to define change for me.. Obama was change, what happened? "change" is basically a new face that gives us false comfort that some great change occurred when it didn't.
Dems need to focus on capturing apathetic non-voters. Develop a solid strategy with a clear message to address job scarcity. Trump aint bringing those jobs back, and as soon as that reality hits, people will get a harsh wake up call. His infrastructure plan will blow a hole in the deficit and jack up interest rates. His tax plan will hit hardest single parent households and his tax cuts are negligible for those in lower income brackets , considering all the other cuts in essential services and gutting to medicaid and medicare Ryan wants.
We focus on our core values at the grassroots level - justice- criminal justice reform, immigration reform, first amendment rights, aversion to overly hawkish foreign policy intervention- notwithstanding the institutional pressures to protect our interests abroad.