Car-vile, the snakebutt sez what?
The less talk about issues the better.
Conventional thought is that conventional issues are the place of argument and persuasion.
This is wrong. Independents will decide the election. Appealing to the base is a losing strategy because they are already going to turn out. This is true on both sides. Independents our focused on their own issues. This is the place where voting percentage can be sliced off for a given candidate.
Things like Bitcoin to the surprise of nearly everybody is relevant to fully 20% of Independents. Trump has made a grasp at that 20% by speaking to the crypto conference. The Democrats are on record as strongly opposed to bitcoin.
We don’t need to debate Bitcoin. I’m sure there is no profound position on the part of most conservatives concerning it. But it is a brilliant recognition that Independents are not a segment that are in some fashion so moderate that they are stuck in the middle of anything. They are, rather, a faction with its own issues of interest.
Drain the Swamp is a major independent issue. Both parties, the establishments within the parties, are strongly opposed to the populist perspective of drain the swamp. Since there is no establishment of independent voters, they’re generally in favor of drain the swamp, and this is votes. This is a decisive number of votes.
Carville is talking about winning by avoiding the extreme faction of his party. The real path to victory is grabbing votes outside the party, and Trump has done that from day one, which is what set him against the establishment.