The Way Forward

it will hurt us.

Economic populism and fighting for everyone's civil rights are critical. Imho, we're not unified enough on that front.

I do not respect politicians who remove their pronouns, believing somehow people on the right will now like me and vote for me.

Capitulating to the right doesn't work.

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I've seen it happen time after time. When the Democratic candidate allows himself to be put on the defensive and starts apologizing for the New Deal and the fair Deal, and says he really doesn't believe in them, he is sure to lose. The people don't want a phony Democrat. If it's a choice between a genuine Republican, and a Republican in Democratic clothing, the people will choose the genuine article, every time; that is, they will take a Republican before they will a phony Democrat, and I don't want any phony Democratic candidates in this campaign.



“Given the choice between a Republican and someone who acts like a Republican, people will vote for the real Republican all the time.”
— Harry S. Truman

https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/public-papers/129/address-national-convention-banquet-americans-democratic-action