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Dems gave @AOC 60 seconds at the convention and iirc the rest of the Squad nothing. Defund the police was a slogan that came from the protests. The Squad could vanish from the earth tomorrow and none of the centrist complaints about messaging would be assuaged.
Spanberger would have gotten the same attack ad. And she’s going to get it again in 2022. If she has something to actually run on to counter it, maybe she’ll be ok. Worth a shot, no?
That’s different than saying that any particular slogan is effective or not. The purpose of a slogan is to win mass support for your cause. If it’s working, it’s good, if it’s not, it’s not, and people need to be hard headed about that.
But that’s different from the point the centrists are trying to make, which is that Democrats need to stay as far away as possible from any association with the left. Aside from whether that’s smart or whatever: good luck with that.
If Spanberger thinks she can put together a different coalition, she can try. But the suburbs alone aren’t big enough and the white rural vote, as she knows, skews heavily Republican. So where else is she gonna go?
