• Optional@lemmy.world
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    Buncha crap.

    RepubliQans built an entire Potemkin media landscape and scraped their viewer’s minds clean on a daily basis. DNC cannot grok this. They depend on corporate news sewers to portray them, and as always they get stabbed in the back by both-sidesing republiQan-owned shit factories. That world of The West Wing where honest media affected voters has been gone for decades, it would sure be a good idea for the DNC to wake up to that fact.

    This “Better Jobs” view was always a corporatist Dem position that was doomed to fail, and often did.

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    Free trade’s just a dandy concept/Advertisers tell us so/Don’t you question, don’t you doubt it/You’re so stupid. You don’t know.” So goes a song Sherrod Brown composed on his guitar back in 1993

    Democrats’ messaging remains consistent to this day.

    Democrats’ leftward lurch on economic policy

    Consisted of telling people who were suffering to be happy that billionaires were doing so well.

    Even in 2024, Mr Brown felt he weathered attacks over transgender athletes and illegal immigration. “The ad that beat us,” Mr Brown says, was one that declared a vote for Mr Brown to be a vote against Mr Trump. “There was no really good answer for that,” he says.

    The answer Democrats settled on has been to abandon trans people rather than embrace workers.

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    “The ad that beat us,” Mr Brown says, was one that declared a vote for Mr Brown to be a vote against Mr Trump. “There was no really good answer for that,” he says.

    It basically comes down to race for those voters.