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Peg Frey's avatar

Ms Bitecofer is on the mark. I've been following her for awhile and appreciate her clarity particularly in refusing to allow the GOP to shape the narrative. Democrats have overlooked this narrative strategy in the past believing that good works and good governance would seal the deal with the electorate. But that strategy has failed us and allowed the GOP to gain dominance in state and local races for which we're now paying the price.

I'm encouraged with the recall rout last night. Yes, California is a blue, blue state but Newsom and his strategists relied on the messaging of choice between reason and extremism, science and conspiracy theory. Elder was no doubt a gift but the truth is that Elder's full embrace of MAGA extremism is what Republicans are now; it's their whole schtick, something they can't abandon without a primary slaughter.

The Frankenstein monster has escaped and the GOP has lost control.

Make them own it!

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John's avatar

This is welcome news to learn that Democrats are seriously focusing on messaging. For far too long many of us Democrats have felt the party was failing to adequately respond to the Republican sound machine which to their credit reverberates throughout the cosmos, finding its way into the most intimate recesses of the human brain, where it is pounded into a permanent imprint.

Democrats are once again articulating what they stand for, an active government which stands up for its citizens to ensure a decent quality of life. While at the same time, "Strike Pac is . . . . defining Republicans as a party of extremists, a party that has destroyed America, the American middle-class, the American economy, the American infrastructure, America's standing in the world."

This is language that punches back. Finally.

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