"... The angry townhalls are back. This time, voters are furious about the chaotic, clumsy, and counter-productive cuts from Elon Musk’s DOGE Commission.
"Voters find themselves disillusioned as townhalls in Georgia and across the country reveal the so-called populist they elected to cut prices is instead cutting their services, their government aid, and laying off their friends and neighbors. Some Republican members of Congress are complaining publicly; and many more are privately expressing their concerns to the White House.
"It’s early, but this is clear evidence of a grassroots backlash to Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s assault on our government. Democrats must define Trump’s presidency, push back on the cuts, and regain political momentum. [snip]
"Putting the world’s richest man, who also happens to be a giant attention magnet, in charge of making unpopular cuts was a big mistake. Trump is leading with his chin. And Democrats are about to land an uppercut." -- former Obama adviser Dan Pfeiffer, in "The Message Box" on Substack, telling us "How to Make the GOP Pay a Price for DOGE." We've intentionally left out the "how to" part, so you need to check out Pfeiffer's four messaging strategies for Democrats to land that uppercut to the Malignant Fascist's jaw. To the extent we can each amplify those strategies in the days ahead, Pfeiffer urges us to do so through our social media or personal interactions, grassroots style.
What is also desperately needed are competent, compelling messengers. (This is where we say we envy parliamentary-style government, where you have "shadow" cabinet members and a "shadow" prime minister who speak in unified opposition. Sigh.) We like what Reps. Jamie Raskin, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Jasmine Crockett are doing, as well as Sen. Chris Murphy and Elizabeth Warren, and Govs. JB Pritzker, Tim Walz, and Janet Mills, to name a few. It would help if the DNC would take a few moments away from issuing multi-page memos that no one reads to coordinate something like a forceful resistance with consistent messengers and persistent messaging.
👏👏 Thank you for the Pfeieffer guidance. I make it about Musk and in some groups I hit it hard that he is usurping the power of their elected "Lord and Savior," "Black Soul of Jesus Son of David," or whatever sick designation that group uses, because they can easily be manipulated to see Musk as Satan or the Antichrist! 🤪
ReplyDeleteBut, if you know anyone who going to a town hall, please don't let them go alone!! Like any safety PSA would tell you, travel in groups. What happened to a woman in Idaho will happen more and, just like in Sphincter Face's first term, unidentified "men in black will disappear you!!
https://idahocapitalsun.com/2025/02/24/north-idaho-woman-forcibly-removed-from-kootenai-county-republican-town-hall/