Democrats Desperately Attempt To Regain Relevance With Midwest Voters Via New Populist Agenda
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Jul 24, 2017
Yesterday we pointed out that, in a somewhat shockingly frank interview with on ABC’s “This Week”, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said that Democrats, not Russia, were to blame for Hillary Clinton’s loss to President Trump.
“When you lose to somebody who has 40 percent popularity, you don’t blame other things – [James] Comey, Russia – you blame yourself.”
“So what did we do wrong? People didn’t know what we stood for, just that we were against Trump. And still believe that.”
Of course, over the past 12 months, Democrats have tried every strategy possible win elections aside from actually putting forth an agenda of ideas that resonate with voters. At first there was the blame game in which Democrats pretended they didn’t have a philosophical disconnect from voters but rather were simply robbed of the White House by Russian hacking operations.
Then, when that strategy failed to inspire voters, Democrats simply threw an obscene amount of money at special election candidates like John Ossoff. Unfortunately, it wasn’t enough as Ossoff still lost…resulting in a devastating waste of $176 per vote, or roughly 7.6x more than what Karen Handel spent to actually win. Oops.
So what do you do when your party is in complete disarray and not even the mainstream media’s 24/7, wall-to-wall bashing of your political opposition is sufficient for you to start winning elections? Well, you roll out a whole new snazzy slogan and send Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi to Berryville, Virginia to deliver an inspiring speech.
According to the Associated Press, the ‘new’ Democrat agenda will be focused on introducing all new strategies focused on “raising wages, lowering costs for families, and giving working Americans better skills for the 21st century economy.” Unfortunately, while they boast a new way forward, the ‘new’ Democrat agenda looks a lot like the old one and seemingly focuses on increasing taxes, entitlements and other forms of government dependence while attacking and demonizing all wealthy individuals and corporations.
The full title of the agenda is “A Better Deal: Better Jobs, Better Wages, Better Future.”
“The Democratic Party’s mission is to help build an America in which working people know that somebody has their back,” say documents accompanying the roll-out.
There are three overarching goals: raising wages, lowering costs for families, and giving working Americans better skills for the 21st century economy.
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