Noam Chomsky said todays republican party is no longer a mainstream political party but is now a radical insurgency. Tough to fight that when you are just a regular political party and your supporters are not zealots (for the most part).So how do you win over people that don't care, or care about basic right/wrong from a moral POV??? Real shit... If people only give a fuck about an issue or 2, and everybody left on the bench got a different issue. With some of those issues possibly being diametrically opposed to each other. What message you really gonna put out there that will be effective at getting apathetic people to vote for you??? It's like people telling Dems to have better messaging, appeal to a larger swath of the population while not turning off the other people that vote for you, be perfect and we might vote for you. Meanwhile other side got loyal voters that's gonna vote regardless and been doing it for decades. Thats how they win. They in lock step and Dems keep losing ground cause everybody on this side wanna feel special. Little by little them muthafuckas methodically got they people im position to do exactly what they doing now. We want a slice, brown folks wanna slice, LGBT wanna slice, feminists wanna slice, environmentalists wanna slice, small business wanna slice, liberal elites wanna slice, young people wanna slice, unions wanna slice, cities, rural towns errrrrbody want deliverables from 1 side, while the other aint getting shit but still gone vote. If they keep winning aimt nobody getting shit. But... Do better Dems.Long winded and I'm kinda just rambling. But this shit feel hopeless.
The Dems can definitely do better but they are handicapped. On one hand Repubs just care about winning and are willing to fuck shit up just to own the Dems. Dems are a typical political party and their supporters won't outwardly support that. The other issue is the system aint shit and the Dems are a part of that system. So the Dems will do things that benefit the people but only up to the point where it doesn't offend the ruling class.
Its tough man. Plus, Trump is a master manipulator. In his first term, CNN couldn't help falling into the trap of being seen as not objective and anti-Trump just because of how aggressively he came at them. Even now, Dems are being played into looking like they are going all out for a dude who could be a MS 13 gang member, facts be damned.