Anonymous wrote:The left struggles because their messages suck.

Which messages suck?

No. Republicans have it easy because all they do are misleading emotional appeals to fears and prejudices. They don’t try to do any governing so they don’t have policies to explain. It’s all emotional triggering to bigotry. It works when they are the opposition but they have trouble when they win because they fail disastrously at even basic governing.

Democrats are constantly proposing policies and reforms and there are always divisions even within the party over different ways to do something, how much, who pays, who and how to do management and oversight, etc. It’s easy to find something to criticize about Democrats because they disagree among themselves.

The left struggles because their messages suck.

Anonymous wrote:It's the bottom-up, Big Tent approach. When you try to cater to so many different voter groups with different backgrounds and policy objectives, you tend to squabble amongst each other instead of projecting a unified message.

Republicans DNGAF about the Big Tent and catering to a variety of voices. You either get on board with their top-down policy preferences and messaging, or face a well-funded primary challenger who will brand themselves as a "true conservative."

I think many of the GOP elected officials constantly live in a state of terror.

OP here. I agree.

It's the bottom-up, Big Tent approach. When you try to cater to so many different voter groups with different backgrounds and policy objectives, you tend to squabble amongst each other instead of projecting a unified message.

Republicans DNGAF about the Big Tent and catering to a variety of voices. You either get on board with their top-down policy preferences and messaging, or face a well-funded primary challenger who will brand themselves as a "true conservative."

I think many of the GOP elected officials constantly live in a state of terror.

Anonymous wrote:No, if anything professional left is way more credentialed and can’t speak to normal people

What do you mean by this? Who are the “abnormal” people?

Anonymous wrote:I am sure at the highest levels of the party there is plenty of money to pay for professional firms for marketing and consulting.

Agree with you that the left struggles with this more. I think it stems from their big tent approach; whereas the Republicans take a more deliberately exclusionary approach.

Unfortunately the messages that Dems are putting out these days are clearly not resonating with voters. They appear to be struggling to retain current Democrats, I am hearing way more stories of Ds turning R than Rs moving to D.

I wish the Democrats could get it together because the so many Republicans are eager to abandon the rule of law.

12:52. Because that’s the message the GOP-owned media wants you to get. Notice that it’s not widely reported that Republicans and hence Republican voters were dying off of covid at crazy amounts.

I think it’s discipline of message and the fact that the GOP owns the media.

I am sure at the highest levels of the party there is plenty of money to pay for professional firms for marketing and consulting.

Agree with you that the left struggles with this more. I think it stems from their big tent approach; whereas the Republicans take a more deliberately exclusionary approach.

Unfortunately the messages that Dems are putting out these days are clearly not resonating with voters. They appear to be struggling to retain current Democrats, I am hearing way more stories of Ds turning R than Rs moving to D.

I wish the Democrats could get it together because the so many Republicans are eager to abandon the rule of law.

Anonymous wrote:No amount of professional PR can compete with the free publicity and support provided by left leaning entertainment industry.

Every right-leaning parent I know would never let their kid major in film or theatre, so what you mentioned is the natural result of that.

I wonder about that too. Zelensky is a brilliant communicator for Ukraine. Maybe pp has a point about keeping it more real. I wonder whether smart, funny comedians such as Stephen Colbert/ Jon Stewart/ Seth Meyers would do a better job of messaging in down to earth and engaging ways while conveying the high stakes involved …

No amount of professional PR can compete with the free publicity and support provided by left leaning entertainment industry.

Anonymous wrote:No, if anything professional left is way more credentialed and can’t speak to normal people

There they go again.

No, if anything professional left is way more credentialed and can’t speak to normal people

I have a theory that the left has so many gaffes because the right is wealthier, more coordinated and hires professional political consulting firms at a higher frequency than the left does.