My thoughts on Shaun King’s “Why the Democratic Party seems to have no earthly idea why it is so damn unpopular,” which got a lot of play on social media a couple of weeks ago.
From a branding standpoint, Hillary’s problem is a good reflection of the Democratic party’s problem. In the last weeks before the election, in a swing state, we in Pennsylvania were treated to a deluge of ads attacking Trump for his outrageous behavior and statements. Problem is, everyone had already made up their mind by then whether they cared about his comments about women etc. and how it would affect their vote.
What we should have seen were profiles of all the good work Hillary has done over her decades in public life. The work on behalf of children and families. (For the swing vote in a heavily Catholic state) her efforts to make abortion, as she once put it, “safe and rare” through better health care options. What she did for New York after 9-11.
Democrats do a poor job of driving the narrative. This has been true at least since Newt Gingrich and the Contract With America in ’94. Democrats support universal healthcare—hell, they passed a pretty well-known law instituting it in 2010—and minimum wage, immigration reform, alternative energy, marijuana decriminalization, and end to fracking (very prominently on the state level in PA, NY and elsewhere)… for King to say mainstream Dems are not part of these battles is not true.
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