15th April 2019, 5:27 AM
A centrist democrat will lose. Period. That is the lesson you should have learned with Hillary. It's what the party should have learned. If you try to appeal to the rust belt with a "diet republican", the republicans are just going to run with their full-sugar republican, and sweep it. They do that every single time.
If you want to win the rust belt, it takes honesty. Don't lie and pretend you share their values. Tell the truth, that your values ARE different than what they've been raised to believe is right, and then make a clear and honest case for why your values will better serve their interests than what the republicans are offering. Point out how republican policy has failed them, and show how left leaning policy serves rural communities better.
I've already gone over this very early on in this thread.
Fail to learn from history at your peril. But at the rate things are going, a Biden candidacy is nothing more than a declaration that Trump is going to be an 8 year president.
If you want to win the rust belt, it takes honesty. Don't lie and pretend you share their values. Tell the truth, that your values ARE different than what they've been raised to believe is right, and then make a clear and honest case for why your values will better serve their interests than what the republicans are offering. Point out how republican policy has failed them, and show how left leaning policy serves rural communities better.
I've already gone over this very early on in this thread.
Fail to learn from history at your peril. But at the rate things are going, a Biden candidacy is nothing more than a declaration that Trump is going to be an 8 year president.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)