A couple of tweets from more knowledgeable people have me thinking it is time again to, as they say, walk and chew gum at the same time. Progressives need to prepare to lock in our wins between now and Nov. 3 as well as lay groundwork for not losing Reconstruction a second time.
With more than a week to the general election, tensions are running high even as incidents at polling places have been minor. There have been at least two fires set in ballot drop boxes at opposite ends of the country. The acting president’s “implosion on 60 Minutes is much worse than you might think,” tweets Plum Line’s Sargent Greg Sargent. Trump is fuming that he could not intimidate Lesley Stahl into living in a “fictional universe of his own creation.”
Trump’s supporters still do. Both he and they will be more than mildly peeved when it comes crashing down. A Sunday tweet by Dave Wasserman hinted it would.
Progressive messaging guru Anat Shenker-Osorio insists that this side of the cultural divide must do some counter-programming to prepare the Trump cult for a loss:
This is not a matter of counting chickens too early. This is strategic. Building a “Biden wins” narrative now will make it harder for Trump to keep his foot soldiers fighting a war that’s already lost. The North won the Civil War and lost Reconstruction, after all. That sad legacy is still with us. Let’s not do that again. Erode the other side’s will to fight.
A couple of tweets from Tory Gavito of Way to Win reinforce the notion that any red mirage IS a mirage:
Younger voters are turning out as never before. The power they seek to affect change is theirs to grasp right now. Now! Nov. 4th will be too late. That is where the growth potential is for building a Democratic landslide.
Don’t buy into the media’s horse-race narrative. If Wasserman is right, then as Shenker-Osorio says, “beat drum hard [that] we are winning” if we want to win the peace too.
“This is our moment,” Stuart Stevens wrote last week. Act like it:
Now is when you turn a victory into a rout. We are all tired, but the other side isn’t just tired. They are frightened and confused. As they should be. Because they are losing the fight for the soul of this country. And they know it.
Victory is near.
But work your tails off anyway. Push it all the way to the finish line.
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