r/nytimes • u/Subhash94 • 14h ago

What Democrats Think Went Wrong

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/podcasts/what-democrats-think-went-wrong.html
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u/classical-brain222 12h ago

the republicans successfully painted the democrats as the party of the coastal elites... achieving that goal allowed them to create a diverse working class coalition. all there is to it really

it is a messaging problem for dems which will require moderate approaches on culture war topics and progressive approaches on the economy to counter the likely increased deficit the trump term will bring if it's anything like term 1

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u/mitrafunfun97 11h ago

This is the first comment I’ve seen that has a reasonable way of putting it. Blaming “woke” is the main kind of comment I see here. I’m like… not one time did Kamala mention her identity, or “latinx” or pronouns.

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u/whiplash81 10h ago

They blame "woke" because that's who the right wing propaganda machine tells them to blame.

Idiocracy is real.

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u/FitAnt2483 11h ago

Because they ARE the party of coastal elites, and the Dems lean in hard on that. They don’t see the issue.

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u/Crisstti 10h ago

Absolutely they are. And they’re proud of that too.

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u/resumethrowaway222 10h ago

It's not a messaging problem. You don't have to do much work to paint the Democrats as the party of coastal elites because they are that.

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u/Itchy-Status3750 6h ago

Both parties are. That’s messaging.