"In the minds of the average Republican voter, when a Democrat is in the White House, our border is a wide open highway where the most savage brown-skinned hordes from across the world are not just given open passage, but also gifted advance access to the American welfare state and apparently the right to vote."
"None of this is true, of course, but it is what the right believes and it is a major motivator behind their efforts to get out the vote.
It’s morally bankrupt and politically tone-deaf to reinforce this broken framing of events. …
If the right is going to make the same attacks no matter what you say and do, while still activating their voters and polluting the minds of the wider voting public, Democrats should give the country something different."
The modern right is purely reactionary: every position a Democrat or someone on the left takes results in them taking the opposing stance (cutting freaking cancer funding, cozying up to Russia, hello?).
But polls consistently show that progressive policies are very popular!
You’re not going to win these voters yourself or by befriending Republicans; your own voters have to talk to their friends about how their lives were helped to make any headway there.
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