If you read between the lines Dowd is telling the party to stop running metrosexual males and start running former football players—it is easier to fool the stupid public that way.
When she says “messaging” she means “lying”.
The Democrats are lousy liars—she wants them to get better at it.
Dishonesty is the hallmark of liberal intellectual superiority.
I'm sitting here chuckling at the prospect of Colin Kaepernick as a DIM House candidate from Commiefornia.