General Discussion

Or I'm misunderstanding your response. Learning from your enemies doesn't mean coopting their bad behavior. It's figuring out what they're doing that's effective and rebranding it as your own. Then using it against them. Acting instead of our usual reacting.

The gist isn't anything new. The American populace isn't terribly insightful, to put it mildly. Stop acting like they are. Keep the message simple, straightforward and consistent. Truthful is even better. And every Dem pounds it home. This has been discussed for years, but Dems are still no good at it. Republicans have been doing exactly this for decades, long before Trump, and are far more tapped into the American psyche than we are. Dump our strategists, who are obviously terrible, and enlist the help of former Republican operators who are as disaffected by Trump as we are. They can teach us a thing or two. And just as important, it will take a significant amount of cooperation within a party that's not known for it's internal cooperation. We'd better figure that shit out too as we have little choice.

End of the day, it's about reclaiming the democracy by any and all means necessary while there's still a goddamn democracy to reclaim. Once we do that, we can then return to our regularly schedule political fights with said Republican operators.