Anat Shenker-Osorio gives excellent advice here. She points out that “law and order” is a trap set by Trump that serves to keep the base at home. (Also, leaning into right wing framing is immoral). podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pod…
She also argues that emphasizing Trump is an authoritarian helps him. Instead, he should be described as weak, bumbling and ineffectual. (Interestingly, that is Trump’s approach to Biden).
Prior to the interview, the hosts argue, correctly, that Dems should emphasize policy.
Notably, this is what the left has been saying this whole time.
Stop panicking. Stop blaming the left. Stop using right wing framing.
Start emphasizing policy. Start phone banking.
And the better the policy is the more electable Biden will be.
“There is nothing left to say about how horrible” Trump is. “Do you think there’s a black or brown person in America” who doesn’t already know,” she asks? They don’t need another tidbit.
The choice is not between Biden and Trump for these voters. But Biden and staying home.
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