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In reply to the discussion: One Thing Is Clear: Democrats can win elections without appealing to Republicans. [View all]qdouble
(891 posts)In the Trump-verse...they don't give Obama any credit for Trump inheriting a good economy and they don't blame him for his disastrous response to COVID. When you have a president that lies all the time and an echo chamber that promotes his lies, you start living in a totally different reality.
That's why I think it's not optimal for Democrats to base their political strategy around appealing to Republicans, when the Republican Party's primary strategy is lying, distortion and culture wars. The Republican Party's real positions of taking away pre-existing conditions coverage, destroying Medicare and Social Security, and basically just serving corporations instead of the American people are unpopular, so they drag us into having to defend nonsense while we try to explain what our position really is... all the while they have no intention of acknowledging that they are lying.