Election 2024

Liz Wolfe | 11.8.2024 9:44 AM

Prominent Democrats appear to be learning all the wrong lessons: Right now, political commentators are a study in contrasts. Consider this:

It is 1933. Hitler is in power. No time for a fucking seminar on Democrats messaging errors

— Jen Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) November 8, 2024

But also, this, from Julie Roginsky on CNN, excerpted at length:

"I'm going to speak some hard truths…We are not be party of common sense, which is the message the voters sent to us…When we address Latino voters…as Latinx, for instance, because that's the politically correct thing to do, it makes them think we don't even live in the same planet as they do. When we are too afraid to say that, hey, college kids, if you're trashing the campus of Columbia University because you're unhappy about some sort of policy and you're taking over a university and you're trashing it and preventing other students from learning, that is unacceptable. But we're so worried about alienating one or another cohort in our coalition that we do not know what to say when normal people look at that and say, wait a second, I send my kids to college so they can learn, not so they can burn buildings and trash lawns, right? And so on and so forth. When we put pronouns after names and say 'she/her' as opposed to saying, 'you know what, if I call you by the wrong pronoun, call me out. I am sorry. I won't do it again.' But stop with the virtue signaling and speak to people like they're normal."

Also:

"We constantly try to parse out different ways of speaking because our focus groups or polling shows that so-and-so appeals to such and such. That's not how normal people think. It is not common sense and we need to start being the part of common sense again. Joe Biden is not responsible for that, neither is Kamala Harris. That is a problem that Democrats have had for years. I've been banging the drum on this for I don't know how—probably ten years on this. We need to get back to being the party of common sense that people look at us and say we........

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