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1. Not sure who @savethemiddle is, but this message is at the heart of the "moderate messaging" overhaul I want to work with Democrats on post-election, if we can survive. It teaches them how to message from a position of strength & on offense, rather than their current method,
2. which is defensive, and thus, from a position of weakness. It was something I'd been planning on doing anyway, BUT the pandemic & accompanying economic disaster has actually presented a massive opportunity to rebrand the party's messaging in a major way- esp if some serious
3. money can be brought to bear on the effort, which I and my partner in crime @LaurieSpivak believe groups like @MikeBloomberg will be attracted to. After 40yrs of "trickle-down," starve-the-beast, Republicanomics its become clear that this economic approach produces suboptimal
4. outcomes unless your end goal is massive wealth disparity, crumbling infrastructure, a govn't that can't even respond to a moderate-threat pandemic, and a mass public capable of electing someone like Donald Trump to the American presidency. So, its clear we need a massive
5. overhaul, the Democratic Party is in an excellent position to deliver good governance but needs to continue to tweak its electioneering capabilities to ensure they can maintain power long enough to clean up the crisis level mess we're in and to expand on that power enough to
6. actually make serious headway on fixing stuff- not just putting bandaids on the gaping wounds stuff that Biden's 1st term will be consumed by IF, again, IF we can dislodge Trump out of the presidency here. Given the fact that the GOP has fallen fully into extremism, the Dem
7. Party should be, and COULD BE, crushing the messaging/narrative game. But they won't without some tweaks to their infrastructure and strategic organization. Hoping to get a chance to work on this stuff. But 1st, we need to dodge this crisis.
Here is the tweet that inspired this thread. Oops
