Podcasts, media, and messaging (or How the Democrats can win again)

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@Banquet_Bear

The thread is about what the Democrats should do. My argument is that it’s no use waiting for the Democrat machine to do anything because they are fundamentally incapable of doing what’s needed to combat the rise of authoritarianism.

You two are talking past each other a bit because there are at least two ways to interpret “the Democrats”:

1. The Democratic Party machine: the DNC, big donors, entrenched high-level Democratic politicians, advisers emeritus (like James Carville), etc. considered as a collective apparatus.

2. Some number of individual Democratic politicians, activists, media members**, voters, etc. that happen to identify with the Democratic Party but do not necessarily count on the explicit support of the overarching “machine”.

*** thinking more “Substackers” and less “NYT staff writers”.*