Writing in The Guardian, author and founder of Democracy In Color Steve Phillips makes the argument that Dems need to embrace justice and equality in 2028, disputing the conventional wisdom of "centrists" who would prefer to go "Republican lite":
"One of the biggest myths about the 2024 election is the notion that large numbers of people who supported Democrats in 2020 changed their minds and switched their votes and cast ballots for Trump in 2024. You can look just at four key states to show the fallacy in that notion: Harris got more votes in Georgia, North Carolina, Nevada and Wisconsin than Joe Biden had received four years earlier. So if all these people were abandoning the Democrats, how did the Democrats’ numbers go up? What happened is that Trump did a better job of scaring, stirring up and mobilizing his core supporters than the Democrats did.
And yet the power of that myth persists, and it impacts the thinking about 2028 by insidiously encouraging Democrats to try to tone down the “wokeness”, which is really just code for distancing themselves from the movement to eradicate racism, sexism and homophobia and make this country a true multiracial, multicultural democracy where people are all embraced." (our emphasis)
Aggressive voter mobilization around effective messages that speak to justice and a level playing field that MAGAts oppose is a foundation for Dem wins in 2026 and beyond.
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