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Stop thinking in circles: A guide to 2020

1- elex are not won by 3D chess but mobilizing/demobilizing voters

2- doesn't matter what POTUS "wants" Ds to do. No matter what THEY do, HE will set a fire to inflame/turnout his base. It's all he knows. Fear hate rage memes /1
3- best way for congressional Ds to mobilize voters is unified agenda and action. This can include highlighting themes from impeachment investigation to expose corruption, POTUS breaking institutional norms and laws, hollow silence of Rs in response... /2
...but narrative game needs a major boost. It's nobody's 1st day, folks.

4- ground game matters a lot

5- Alas this now includes online ground game which is an asymmetric equalizer. There is no balance of power in information domain. I DON'T MEAN everyone should run trolls /3
Narrative narrative narrative.

POTUS's is simple, flexible, dishonest: this adaptability makes it a strong political mechanism. His base knows how to frame stories in the narrative, how details fit. Other Rs don't matter.

Ds need one. Badly. Step one: remember who enemy is /4
Narrative narrative narrative. Engagement that isn't enragement.
Bolster those who want to see a way out of this circus.
Dismay those who thrive on the circus. Take away their space. /5
6- again, POTUS is a blob of valueless goo that will morph and ooze and lash out in anyway he thinks will help him. Literally nothing an opponent can do will change that.

He will continue to TAKE AWAY SPACE to challenge him. No press briefings. Etc.

Make your own space. /6
7- the impeachment inquiry must be mobilization within congress and across country for people who want not this. Be expansive in inclusive in what that means.

Will add later.

But clarity on I REALLY DONT CARE DO YOU re POTUS "3D" chess. He doesn't. /7
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