OPINION | If Democrats want to do more going forward than just limp from barely-averted-disaster to barely-averted-disaster, they need a winning message on the material issues most immediately relevant to the lives of ordinary voters.
a version of “democracy is on the ballot” that might move a broader segment of the electorate. But it would have to be a more grounded one.
It makes sense to criticize laws passed in Republican-dominated state legislatures that make it more difficult to vote, or to express alarm at the election of Republican secretaries of state who trafficked in conspiracy theories about the 2020 election. But when the “democracy” under threat is an abstraction, and no connection is drawn to kitchen table issues with an immediate impact on voter’s lives, this can ring a little hollow to all but the most dialed-in liberal partisans.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., addresses an Election Night party at The Westin Washington hotel in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, November 8, 2022. Rep. Tom Emmer, R-Minn., chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, and RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel also appear.We often hear that Social Security is “economically unsustainable” or that it will “become insolvent” and that the proposed cuts will prevent “insolvency”—but that’s just not how the system works.
Better yet, he could have framed the midterms around an aggressive push for the public health care option he promised during the 2020 campaign and then immediatelywhen he took office. Or better still, he could have gone a step beyond that and adopted Bernie Sanders’s call for a system of Medicare for All where the parasitical private insurance companies were taken out of the picture entirely.
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