Thread by @SlavaMalamud

Here is the thing. Sidney Powell is evil. The GOP is evil. Everyone supporting and enabling Trump is evil.
But the reason they exist and exert power is because they know what a HUGE number of people in America wants to hear. This is why they win elections. It's simple... (thread)

https://twitter.com/OrinKerr/status/1334218876993691649

Folks say that Dems should stop saying things like "Defund the police", "Black lives matter" and "Green New Deal", because they scare away the "real America." Folks say that Dems should talk about issues that make "real America" listen. You know, pocket-book issues. Jobs and shit

But Dems ARE talking about this stuff. They talk about the things that rural and suburban America needs in the XXI century. Which party is talking about broadband internet in the rural areas? Which party is talking about job retraining? Which party is talking about NEW jobs?..

The problem isn't that the Dems don't have ideas for "real America." The problem is that the Dems' ideas, while the only workable ones out there, are not the ones the "real America" wants to hear. The "real America" wants things to be how they used to.
"At least in my life"...

The "real America" wants to live in thriving rural areas where folks grow corn on ma's and pa's farms and get rich. Where a high-school drop out can walk into a factory and score a lifetime union job with a great wage and a nice health benefits plan. Where being white means a lot

They have zero time for job retraining or for building solar panels in Idaho or for medical insurance that also helps "urban" people. They want a fantasy, they want someone to turn the clock back to when soda pop was 1 cent a bottle and the dick was still hard...

The GOP can't make their lives better. At all. Nobody can. The time can't be turned back. The rural America of 1953 isn't coming back. Black people aren't shipping themselves back to Africa. But the GOP knows how to sell the phantasy. How to make them FEEL good...

And they know how to turn them on with bullshit culture wars, which, after all, are more fun to get worked up about than thinking that coal mining is going extinct within your kid's lifetime.
And that's what the GOP and Trump do. They sell bullshit fairy tales. And anger.

The Democrats' problem is not that they don't have real, workable ideas. Or that they are dominated by wild-eyed utopians.
The Democrats' problem is that a huge swath of America wants to be told bumper-sticker nursery rhymes, horror stories and superhero comics.
This is it.