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In reply to the discussion: It would be nice if the centrists in this party did some introspection, too. [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)Whatever you think of Bernie-and I had my own criticisms of him, especially on the way he expressed himself on anti-oppression issues-That campaign was one of the most positive things we've seen in this party, and it brought a lot of good ideas and energized people into the process. We should all be glad that it happened.
My point was that, regardless of what anyone feel about Bernie as a candidate or as a person, we needed to actively reach out to his supporters and make sure they knew they were needed and that what they had done was not a meaningless waste of time. Far too much of the time, their support was simply demanded and their concerns were dismissed.
The ads I saw-and those were national ads-were skewed heavily in favor of attacking Trump. Would you at least agree that, when it became clear that that tactic wasn't going to flip any significant number of traditional GOP voters our way-when it became obvious that the "moderate Republican women in the suburbs who were alienated by Trump's misogyny" this strategy was meant to win over simply didn't exist-that we should have switched exclusively to a positive campaign?