While Trump’s defeat in last November’s election was vitally important, our performance in other races was less than we had hoped it would be. (Can you imagined, for example, having two additional Senate seats?) Greg Sargent has a convincing analysis of what happened:
A new analysis of House Democratic losses in 2020 done by a progressive donor and strategy group — which is circulating among Democratic strategists — suggests some counterintuitive answers for Democrats navigating these pressures.
The analysis — which was done by the group Way to Win and was provided to me — suggests large TV-ad expenditures on emphasizing bipartisan outreach do not appear to have paid dividends for House Democrats in the 2020 elections…
The analysis also finds that Republicans spent a lot more money on casting Democrats as extremists than Democrats did in making the case against Republican extremism.
Democrats, of course, lost a net dozen House seats, underperforming victorious Joe Biden all over the place. The findings suggest Democrats need a rethink of their approach to those conundrums, the analysts conclude.
The conclusion is clear: START LABELING THE REPUBLICANS AS THE DANGEROUS RADICALS THAT THEY ARE.
I have already argued that we need to tie the GQP to the 6 January terror attack by Trump supporters on our nation’s. Read my post on this here. I have argued again and again again for the supremacy of a strong ground game. (Here is my latest post on this.) But we need to call the Republicans what they are: radical Right-wing fanatics and grifters. If, for example, we can’t make hay out of this, we don’t deserve to win:
Yes, Greene is BRAGGING about taking over the Republican Party. SHE COMPARED HAVING TO WEAR A MASK WITH THE HOLOCAUST. Thunder this message out across America! Tie the Republican Party to this wretched, hate-filled, anti-Semitic asshole. Make her the face of the Republican Party.
You’ve heard the expression, “Call a spade a spade”? I say: Call a Right-wing Radical a Right-wing Radical.
Now enough of this namby-pamby “bipartisan” nonsense. Take the gloves off. Go after them. Give ‘em, hell. Remember what Harry Truman said: “I just tell the truth about them and they think it’s hell.”
Wrap the Insurrection around their throats.
Get the ground game going NOW.
And tell it like it is!