General Discussion

I literally explained a difference in how we've connected in the past, compared to now, and your response was effectively I won't listen to that.

It's always incumbent on someone making an argument to find a way to reach the audience. As someone who has coached multiple disciplines and been coached in multiple disciplines, you learn that there's not a single message that reaches everyone. Just because you understand something in one way, doesn't mean that works for everyone. And given our recent results of doom and gloom not working electorally, if we want to win, we need to adjust our messaging to sell our party.

Sticking with what hasn't worked just because that message resonates with you, not actually a plan that seems likely to work consistently. When I get donation requests that yell about how we're doomed if I don't chip in 3 dollars, those get deleted immediately. When the Red Cross cries about urgent need for blood, there's only so many times I can donate, they need to find a better way to get more people to donate.

If the only way we can beat Trump with the "he's a horrible person" approach when there's Covid, that's not a winning strategy because we only get that every 100 years. We did the George W Bush is going to kill democracy in 2004, didn't win, we did Trump's supporters are deplorable and he's a threat to democracy in 2016, didn't win. We did Trump's a threat to democracy in 2024, didn't win. When you're saying something people lived through is the sky is falling, and the sky didn't fall as much as claimed, it becomes increasingly ineffective. Is Trump worse than last time? Absolutely. But when we relied on that and ignored that our policies under Biden weren't addressing people's concerns, just saying Trump bad, people bought into Trump wasn't that bad last time, it won't be that bad this time.