How do you build relationships fast enough to keep people in the room long enough to build a big tent? I've been in multiple 2020 debriefs this wk, organized by diff PA groups/networks. There've been differences w/in & btwn them. But take a step back: none of them existed in 2016 https://twitter.com/lara_putnam/status/1234199761273708545

If you've been following this channel for a while you know I think infrastructure really matters. That includes the semi-formal infrastructure of cross-cutting "weak ties": in political/organizing context, lateral light-touch connections that build capacity for re-contact & more

When arguments about 'messaging' blow up repeatedly in public, I don't see a "Dems need better messaging" problem: I see a "Dems are missing the organizational infrastructure that would have created more constructive circumstances to hear each others' perspectives" problem

Which, as @perrybaconjr & I talked about here, is especially important when the coalition you need to build is necessarily going to have to span a bunch of demographic geographic & socio-economic gaps https://bluegrassbeat.substack.com/p/did-democrats-just-waste-88-million

Eg in PA there are counties gaining significant #s of potential Democratic voters who don't look like each other *or* like the traditional Dem party there. Transforming that potential into political change requires spaces for encounter & learning to happen https://twitter.com/lara_putnam/status/1357162298377404419