Deciding to Win: A Common Sense Renewal of the Democratic Party (decidingtowin.org)

The phrase "common sense" is a bad smell to me.

Most of the advice sounds a bit like they should become the new Republican Party. Which makes sense bc the old one is pretty much dismantled at this point.

> Donald Trump and the Republican Party are damaging our economy and threatening our democracy.

The very first words in the very first sentence illustrate the problem. Since ~2016, the Democratic party has (mostly) defined itself as anti-Trump party, with some gender/identity issues mixed in.

Trump firmly believes there is no such thing as bad press. Giving him endless attention is playing into his hand. Choosing to play his game.

This piece makes some good points on how the Democratic party should shift policy to start talking about things voters actually care about, but first they need to tone down the anti-Trump rhetoric and stop feeding his hype machine.

Interesting - can the party resist the lure of class envy and address real issues directly? I doubt it

I think this concept is good from the perspective of focus and targeting issues, meaning that de-emphasizing certain issues seen out of touch with the mainstream is important. But remember that a lot of that is the fruit of the right's propaganda arm, Fox News and all the rest, hanging cultural albatross in order to push the perception that candidates are extreme left. One of the most successful things about Mamdani is message focus - he's as good if not better than Bill Clinton - which if managed correctly can become shared talking points. Having a central messaging office like Fox News is what sits behind most of the Republican Party's success. Of course, one must be careful to ensure the messaging does not start to warp reality, which explains much of what has gone wrong with the Republicans. (e.g., They believe their own Bullsh*t)