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Democrats need to understand being relatable is more important than being right
The Hill ^ | 11/14/24 | Kurt Bardella

Posted on 12/15/2024 10:36:39 AM PST by DallasBiff

When you look at the breadth of President-elect Donald Trump’s victory, it’s impossible to pin Democratic losses on just one or two things. This is not a situation where the outcome would have been different if President Biden had done X or Vice President Kamala Harris had done Y.

In fact, had both Biden and Harris done everything “right,” Trump likely still would have won. The culprit for the Democratic Party’s sweeping losses is bigger than any one particular candidate.

In 2016, I left the Republican Party and became a Democrat. In many ways, I feel as if the GOP left me rather than the other way around.

But over the eight years since, I’ve often observed that Democrats approach elections — and communicating with voters — through a lens of how they think the world should be, rather than meeting them in the world as it actually is.

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To: MinorityRepublican

I call him Gavin Gruesome.


41 posted on 12/15/2024 11:44:18 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher )
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To: DallasBiff

Moderates should stop trying to help Democrats. Their sane wing is much too small and the extremist wing won’t listen anyway.


42 posted on 12/15/2024 11:47:52 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Black guy upon receiving a MAGA hat: "MURICA!")
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To: DallasBiff

They CANNOT relate to the electorate, because the leftists need to conceal their true agenda, not reveal it to the voters. The goal of the leftists is to deceive the electorate, until they are in power, and THEN they impose measures that the voters would NEVER choose.

The only option the leftists have is to deceive, to conseal, to LIE. Not to relate.


43 posted on 12/15/2024 11:49:54 AM PST by Victory or Death
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To: Husker24

This is like Nazis saying “Maybe if we took off the swastika armbands, people could identify more with us”.


44 posted on 12/15/2024 11:53:24 AM PST by Right Brother
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To: DallasBiff

More wisdom from The Hillofbullshit?


45 posted on 12/15/2024 12:05:47 PM PST by antidemoncrat ( )
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To: DallasBiff

STUPID headline. The Dems aren’t right about anything.


46 posted on 12/15/2024 12:08:14 PM PST by The Truth Will Make You Free ( )
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To: The Truth Will Make You Free

It’s an illness no cure found yet.


47 posted on 12/15/2024 12:12:49 PM PST by Vaduz
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To: DallasBiff

If I had to choose one word that defines the lack of Democrat elective success lately and losing a part of their “normal person” base, that one word would be “scold”. Everyone, and I mean everyone, hates a scold. Folks are tired of it. Their speeches are one big scold enveloping their false outrage. This disaffection is spreading to their scold media allies. The entire complex sucks


48 posted on 12/15/2024 12:30:33 PM PST by chuckee
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To: DallasBiff

They are neither relatable nor right.

If the writer thinks either is true, he needs a second bulb.


49 posted on 12/15/2024 12:38:12 PM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: Husker24

They were NEVER right


50 posted on 12/15/2024 1:17:16 PM PST by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: DallasBiff

Well, I’m almost every category they are wrong. So…


51 posted on 12/15/2024 1:35:28 PM PST by vpintheak (Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug. )
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To: Flaming Conservative

“the author means they need to be better liars.”

Exactly.

They need to test out their lies on focus groups before spouting them.

Lol.


52 posted on 12/15/2024 1:37:58 PM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
In many ways, I feel as if the GOP left me rather than the other way around.

Oh, really? Please relate your core principles upon which the GOP changed. Better yet, relate the Democrat/Communist core
principles that evolved to match your principles.

53 posted on 12/15/2024 6:00:06 PM PST by Thommas (The snout of the camel is already under the tent.)
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