Democrats should stop buying the narrative and learn from history. History only repeats itself if one does not learn from it.
Democrats can win the 2022 midterm election
President Biden recently gave a speech after the March Jobs Report came out. While he touted the astounding numbers, he reminded Americans that he was cleaning up a big mess left by Trump and the Republicans. The Republican economic catastrophes seem to be a pattern. After all, Democratic presidents always seem to come into the presidency to clean up the mess created by a party coalesced around voodoo economics since Reagan.
The Right is much better at marketing terrible economic and social ideas than Democrats are at marketing proven good economic and social ideas. Matthew Dowd returned to his roots after doing a stint as a Republican. He is someone who remembers all the tricks that one must play on the psyche of the many Americans that will have them vote for the crop of Republicans, a vote against one’s interests. He knows that the task is mathematically doable in an undemocratic country like America, where a minority of votes in smaller Red States have more electoral value than those in the Blue States.
MSNBC Host Chris Jansing asked Matthew Dowd if the GOP decision to make the soft-on-crime moniker their 2022 election talking would work. He used the question as a segue to give Democrats some sound advice.
“It’s only going to be effective if Democrats let it be effective because, as Mark just alluded to, the President of the United States doesn’t support defunding of police,” Matthew Dowd said. “No U.S. Senate candidates running in 2020 and 2022 support defunding the police and not a single congressional candidate [Democratic] running in a swing district.”
Dowd then gave the talking points Democrats should work on right away.
“In my view, the Democrats should go out a list of other issues on that list, which is Roe versus Wade, overwhelmingly supported by swing voters and Democrats prescription drug relief overwhelmingly,” Dowd said. “Who won the election? Overwhelmingly supported by all voters and in swing voters and Democrats in the course of the election.”
Dowd then suggests that pollsters needed to add a critical question when polling Americans.
“One thing I will add that I hope we add in future polls, which is the issue I would run on as a Democrat is,” Dowd added. Who’s going to protect democracy and voting rights? And that’s the issue. If I were Democrats, that’s what I would run on. I would not go at a Republican talking point on defunding police because it has nothing to do with the establishment of the Democratic Party.”
And Dowd’s final advice is simple, proactive, and a must.
“I would go at the big issues they have an advantage on,” Dowd said.
While I do not know if I am in solid agreement to directly include social issues like abortion, I get his point. Enough women may realize the troglodytes are vying to take control of their bodies. It may even get some Republican votes which put their absolute freedom over an ideology devoid of humaneness.