• Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 days ago

    It has been the Democrat’s major strategy to gain political power in this country since 2016 when Trump first took office to advocate for a certain type of negative politics that isn’t the Republicans, rather than advocating for a positive politics focused on what makes the Democrats.

    Establishment Dems use the existence of MAGA Republicans to try to persuade voters that they’re at least not as bad as MAGA, when they should be spending the time between elections persuading voters with all the good policies that defined the Dems for decades: positive immigration, civil rights, social safety nets, etc.

    Establishment Dems have a politics of what are we against, while new sects of the party like Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) have a politics of what are we for. The latter are seeing amazing success across the country.

    • Luminous5481 "Enemy of the State"@anarchist.nexus
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      they should be spending the time between elections persuading voters with all the good policies that defined the Dems for decades: positive immigration, civil rights, social safety nets, etc.

      except they no longer support those policies.