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Something I think a lot of people display a weird resistance to grasping is the fact that a lot of right-leaning-but-Trump-skeptical voters need what they needed when they originally voted for Trump, which is a permission structure. https://twitter.com/milehighbrendan/status/1295589649147219968
Let’s be clear: I don’t like those people. I do not intend to forgive them for what they did. But we need them to vote D, up and down the ticket, and provided we aren’t outright pandering to them, I’m fine with doing what we gotta do to get them to do what we need them to do.
The stakes of this election should be enough to get you to get over your feelings.
Also, this kind of strategy—using people like the ones behind the Lincoln Project, who are not our friends and who we should under no circumstances trust—does not require making them our friends or trusting them. It’s using them to the degree they’re useful.
What a lot of these voters likely need to hear, from people they recognize and to some degree trust, is “it’s okay to vote this way this time”. So let’s do that.
