Chuck Darwin on Nostr: • We may have to start running noisy, spectacle filled campaigns in every state ...
• We may have to start running noisy, spectacle filled campaigns in every state every election cycle or expect drop-off, underperformance
• We have to build a far better permanent center-left based media ecosystem to compete with what the right has built. As powerful as the right’s propaganda effort has been, it got more powerful with the addition of Twitter this year and the rightward movement of some legacy media. It will become powerful still when Trump is back in the White House. There is great urgency to this work.
We have a loudness problem on our side that simply must be addressed strategically across the entire party in every state and across the country.
We have to be speaking every day to all parts of our coalition, and not just a handful of swing voters and their concerns in a few battleground states.
For if we don’t do this, our campaigns will end up always playing defense in a right-constructed frame, that, among other things, discourages us from talking about all the good we do as a party
- for right-adjacent groups never believe any of that.
All they know is the "bad" - high inflation, trans, the border, crime - and thus the campaign and data ecosystem tells us not to even try to challenge it. -- It’s too baked in.
Over time this means we never get to make the case for us which is one reason why no one knows all the good Biden-Harris had done.
For right-adjacent swing voters don’t believe it, and thus
even though our economy today is arguably stronger than it has been in 60 years,
we spent the general election talking about the harms of inflation rather than our success in getting to the other side of it and orchestrating a soft landing.
https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/early-thoughts-on-the-election-video
• We have to build a far better permanent center-left based media ecosystem to compete with what the right has built. As powerful as the right’s propaganda effort has been, it got more powerful with the addition of Twitter this year and the rightward movement of some legacy media. It will become powerful still when Trump is back in the White House. There is great urgency to this work.
We have a loudness problem on our side that simply must be addressed strategically across the entire party in every state and across the country.
We have to be speaking every day to all parts of our coalition, and not just a handful of swing voters and their concerns in a few battleground states.
For if we don’t do this, our campaigns will end up always playing defense in a right-constructed frame, that, among other things, discourages us from talking about all the good we do as a party
- for right-adjacent groups never believe any of that.
All they know is the "bad" - high inflation, trans, the border, crime - and thus the campaign and data ecosystem tells us not to even try to challenge it. -- It’s too baked in.
Over time this means we never get to make the case for us which is one reason why no one knows all the good Biden-Harris had done.
For right-adjacent swing voters don’t believe it, and thus
even though our economy today is arguably stronger than it has been in 60 years,
we spent the general election talking about the harms of inflation rather than our success in getting to the other side of it and orchestrating a soft landing.
https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/early-thoughts-on-the-election-video