General Discussion

This is where we, as a party, lose voters. I sincerely look forward to furthering the discussion when you've thought it through a little more thoroughly. We're going to need a solid economic plan to present to voters in 2028. We can rail against Trump on social issues all we want, but reality is that he has ingratiated himself to voters with economic issues that should have belonged to Democrats (i.e., a doubling of the standard tax deduction, an increase in the tax exemption for Social Security income, tax exemptions on a portion of overtime, a $6,000 senior tax credit). These are kitchen economics issues that matter to average American households. When we present ourselves as a party wielding a cleaver instead of a scalpel, it does none of us any good.