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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


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Huh, a TDS'er has a light bulb go off in his head.
1 posted on 12/15/2024 10:36:39 AM PST by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

They are neither.


2 posted on 12/15/2024 10:37:03 AM PST by Husker24 (Pp)
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To: DallasBiff

Well…being right is kinda up there


3 posted on 12/15/2024 10:38:13 AM PST by stanne
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To: DallasBiff

Relatable? Impossible.


4 posted on 12/15/2024 10:39:02 AM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: DallasBiff

The Demonicrats are the antithesis of being right. and Demonicrats are only relatable to the demon-possessed and to traitors.


5 posted on 12/15/2024 10:39:30 AM PST by Carl Vehse
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To: DallasBiff

They never will be...for they SEE THEMSELVES as the SAVIORS of “democracy and freedom”.


6 posted on 12/15/2024 10:40:06 AM PST by Paul46360 (Nuk'em all--- let GOD sort them out!)
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To: DallasBiff

What have they been “right” about?


7 posted on 12/15/2024 10:40:21 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: Husker24

You beat me to it. The little rats at The Hill are just clueless.


8 posted on 12/15/2024 10:40:27 AM PST by iamgalt
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To: DallasBiff
...through a lens of how they think the world should be, rather than meeting them in the world as it actually is.

"How they think the world should be" is no where near "right".

9 posted on 12/15/2024 10:40:36 AM PST by fhayek
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To: DallasBiff

“We were right but no one believed it”

They lied to us constantly and without remorse. They were never right.


10 posted on 12/15/2024 10:42:35 AM PST by AppyPappy (If Hitler were alive today and criticized Trump, would he still be Hitler?)
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To: DallasBiff

Try being relatable and right, like Trump.


11 posted on 12/15/2024 10:45:55 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: DallasBiff

It is more likely to have blown up in his head. The Crap Hill is a worthless leftist rag, unfit for the birdcage. Logic, common sense, are foreign words.


12 posted on 12/15/2024 10:47:57 AM PST by Fungi
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
Naturally BM said Trump was crazy, the people in the red hats don't understand the Latin phrase "a priori", and just generally barely masked his contempt for all Trump supporters, while paying some lip service to an idea that he also made fun of -- don't say the quiet part out loud. He remains a partisan POS with a couple of common sense views. Anyway, around the 5 minute mark, right after his red hats remark, he got to what a good many people will agree with:
Bill Maher Says Dems Learned Nothing from the Big Loss [11/16/2024]
"Democrats have become like a royal family that, because of so much incest, has unfortunately had children who are retarded. And the same thing can happen to ideas if they are also conceived in an atmosphere of intellectual incest. Maybe take the clothespin off your noses and actually converse with the other half of the country. Stop screaming at people to get with the program and instead make a program worth getting with. [applause] What good is liberalism if you don't win elections?"

13 posted on 12/15/2024 10:48:07 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Politics do not make strange bedfellows, and the enemy of your enemy may still be your enemy.)
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To: DallasBiff

In a well-ordered society, the productive adult grunts should be the voting majority.


14 posted on 12/15/2024 10:49:13 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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“We must learn to act like these odd people so they buy our crap”


15 posted on 12/15/2024 10:50:03 AM PST by Uncledave
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To: DallasBiff

I have never encountered a Democrat politician (Other than RFK Jr.) that cared about being right or relatable.

They have always appealed to negative emotions; fear, envy and hatred.


16 posted on 12/15/2024 10:51:28 AM PST by Pontiac (esse welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: DallasBiff

They don’t care about “reality” — they just want “power”.


17 posted on 12/15/2024 10:56:11 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

It’s hard to relate to these people who want to shove global warming, illegal aliens, and all this transsexuals stuff down our throats.


18 posted on 12/15/2024 10:57:28 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: DallasBiff

You owe me a keyboard.


19 posted on 12/15/2024 11:00:34 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: DallasBiff
Democrats ain't right

Homosexuality is wrong

LGBTQ is wrong

Abortion is wrong

Transgender is wrong

All according to SATAN'S plan.

Rainbow White House happened on June 26, 2015



At DEMOCRAT Kamala Harris' SATANIC Pro-Abortion Rally



JESUS CHRIST IS LORD

JESUS CHRIST IS
THE SON OF GOD

20 posted on 12/15/2024 11:00:48 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Day's of Lot; They id Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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