Monday, February 8, 2021

QOTD -- Campaigning On The Truth

 

"Democrats should try campaigning on the truth: The Republican Party is controlled by intelligent, college-educated, and affluent elites who concoct dangerous nonsense to paper over a bigoted, plutocratic agenda and to justify attacks on the democratic process. That agenda and those attacks are supported by millions of reasonably intelligent voters who will believe or claim to believe anything that furthers the objective of keeping conservatives in control of this country forever. Simply pointing to figures like Greene and hoping the indignation of college graduates will do the rest is a mistake. Instead, Democrats should present voters with a material choice between a party that has nothing to offer the majority of Americans but abuse and conspiratorial flimflam and a party committed to building a democracy and an economy that work for all. If they don’t, the lizard people who run the GOP will be running the government again in no time." -- Osita Nwanevu, on the Democrats' potential "misunderstanding" of the QAnon movement and how Democrats must fashion their campaign strategy going forward.   It appears from the Biden agenda, and what Democrats are prepared to do to enact it, that Democrats will be largely following the "build democracy and the economy for all" script.