Thread by @RachelBitecofer

@ValHoyle No, this is all wrong. What the GOP got great at was developing a media system to sell the narrative that the D Party abandoned the working class, when the accusation involves D's support of GOP policies. And please don't take this the wrong way but the GOP also heavily benefits

@ValHoyle from a Dem Party that doesn't realize its being hunted. So when lines like, "Dems abandoned working people" start to pop up in convos, serious convos, on the Left, the Left assumes they have frank & earnest origins. But they do not. They originate out of the GOP's propaganda

@ValHoyle machine, and every time a well-meaning Dem repeats it, an angel gets their wings. The new version is that the Dem Party "takes Black and Latino voters for granted." I'm beginning to hear this pop up, randomly, everywhere. Strategic timing, bc voters of color are just now reaching

@ValHoyle their zenith of power, really starting to dominate in a serious way Dem party politics and exert serious influence, so it would be very convenient for conventional wisdom like that to develop. I'm working on that one as it develops- trying to stop it in real-time. But the "Ds

@ValHoyle abandoned working people" planted conventional wisdom has been around a long time, so I'm forced to excise it retroactively. Here is how we can expose it as a farce. What policies does the Democratic Party advance/support that are good for working people? When asked this question

@ValHoyle I can immediately and easily start laying them out- they fought for the minimum wage increase- the last one, in 230078, took the GOP there kicking and screaming, and have been trying to get the next one ever since. Can't do it though, bc of the GOP. GOP barely supports A minimum

@ValHoyle wage, let alone raising one. In fact, it is their miserly, greedy approach to wages over the past couple fo decades that have helped starve the American worker of any share of the income gain pie they've instead held only for themselves. And by refusing to allow wage increases

@ValHoyle at the very bottom of the income chain, what they ended up doing is depressing wages at each rung up so that teachers ended up making $12 damn dollars an hour. If instead, they'd have done what Democrats- the party fighting for working Americans wanted to do, and raise min wage

@ValHoyle and tie it to inflation, even waiting for the ridiculously long time they did until the last raise in 2007- then by now, the fed floor would be at least $10 an hour. And you can't pay an EMT or a teacher $12 an hour when the burger flipper makes $10- which is why I'm so excited

@ValHoyle about what the Democratic Party has been doing out west for working Americans for the past decade after realignments out there finally gave them governing power. Because you can look at what they've done out there with their governing trifectas, where Mitch McConnell's brutal &

@ValHoyle heartless American middle-class gutting filibuster can't reach to see which party is working for the American worker and which only cares about the C-suite. Out in CA, WA, OR, and now NV, Dem governing trifectas have brought people living wages, universal health care, paid sick

@ValHoyle and paid family leave so that regular working Joes and Janes could enjoy just a small slice of the prosperity of the last decade. Americans in other states- esp those ruled by the GOP? They got jack shit. And that's all they'll ever get bc when you turn the question around and

@ValHoyle ask a Republican to define what the GOP platform offers for working and middle-class Americans- it isn't higher wages, it isn't improved healthcare, it isn't relief from astronomical tuition or student loan debt. Unless they straight up lie- like Trump does when he pretends there

@ValHoyle is a GOP health care plan and that it covers pre-existing conditions (I mean there was one, it was called Obamacare!). I mean, the GOP has ruled the roost in rural America for 2 decades. Rural America is a shit show and all the policies that gutted it are still the center piece

@ValHoyle of the GOP's platform. What rural America needs is MORE government, not less. They need massive infrastructure investments and intervention. And what they really need is a Dem Party to come in there and tell them the cold hard truth of the caper the GOP has pulled over on them