What will be the Dems' message in the midterms?

[Wilson23]

Companion to this thread:
https://forum.literotica.com/threads/what-will-be-the-gops-message-in-the-2026-midterms.1645977/

What will be on the agenda other than "We're not Republicans!"?

 

[Wilson23]

https://www.salon.com/2026/01/23/democrats-its-more-than-just-the-economy-stupid/
Democrats: It’s more than “just the economy, stupid”
Tariffs, ICE raids, city invasions and brutalizing immigrants have also become kitchen table issues

 

[Wilson23]

Puerto Rican statehood could be a juicy campaign issue. Swing the Latino vote.
https://forum.literotica.com/threads/statehood-for-puerto-rico.1648819/

 

[YDB95]

How about, "Integrity for a change"? Or "Put the grown-ups back in charge"?

 

[Wilson23]

https://www.salon.com/2026/01/20/to-win-democrats-should-chuck-their-leadership/
To win, Democrats should chuck their leadership
The first step in defeating Trump and MAGA is giving Schumer and Jeffries the boot

Democratic Party leaders have dodged coming to terms with reasons why their party lost the White House in 2024, preferring to make a protracted show of scratching their chins and puzzling over the steep falloff of support from working-class voters of all colors. The Democratic National Committee’s refusal to release its autopsy report, assessing what went wrong in the election, underscores the party’s aversion to serious introspection.

Cogent answers are readily available, but top Democrats like Schumer and Jeffries refuse to heed them. If the party wants to regain and expand support from working-class voters, it must fight for programs that they clearly want.

Extensive polling shows strong public support for major progressive reforms, such as raising taxes on big corporations and the wealthy, lifting the Social Security tax cap, boosting the federal minimum wage and greatly expanding Medicare to include dental, vision and hearing coverage.

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The multifaceted tyranny that Trump and his lieutenants want to impose is both abrupt and gradual. Relying on techniques honed with the “Big Lie,” they strive to turn this month’s shocks into next month’s old hat.

Yet counting on denunciations of Trump to win elections is a very bad strategy. It didn’t work in 2016, it barely worked in 2020 and it failed miserably in 2024.

Democrats on the ballot in November will need to be offering plausible relief to voters in economic distress. But it’s hard for the party’s leaders to come across as aligned with the working class when evidence is profuse that they aren’t.

In essence, Schumer and Jeffries — and the majority of Democratic officeholders who keep those two in the party’s top positions — represent the Biden-era status quo that was unpopular enough to return Trump to the White House. A key reason is a reality that Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders described soon after Trump’s 2016 win: “Certainly there are some people in the Democratic Party who want to maintain the status quo. They would rather go down with the Titanic so long as they have first-class seats.”

 

[YDB95]

Exactly. We've had enough of me-too Republicans. Bill Clinton was able to play that game pretty well and break the Dems' losing streak for the White House, and that was great. But there's no need to do that anymore, and no one else is as good at it as he was.

 

[Wilson23]

The Dems have the MOMENTUM. But they're extraordinarily inventive at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

 

[briancamdudetenger2018]

there is gonna be alot of messages for democrats aka left wingers for the mid terms

messages that will drive the trump right wingers and the right wing media universe so up the wall that they will have 24 7 meltdowns on live tv

 

[Wilson23]

The question is whether to go mainstream or left-progressive. I'm sure the voters don't want Republican-Lite any more.