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(128,527 posts)that reported on a characterization by GOP anti-TFG Rep. Adam Kinzinger regarding what the RW loons do and he dubbed it "Outrage politics" - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142768167
And that is basically what the GOP "conferences" are designed to promote with the help of the media (that they mostly own). Whether it is done via "CPAC" or "Values Voters" or "Focus on the Family".
IMHO, that type of thing is bad for mental health (and cortisol levels) and I think this is why Democrats eschew that type of discourse.
Not long ago, there were outlets like "Move On" and "Occupy" that took up the mantle of elevating parts of our agenda up a few notches, using methods that gained media attention. But those organizations have sortof faded in the background and I expect there needs to be something along the lines of a "Lincoln Project" effort from our side to help with some countering and shifting attention, while we do what we do best - govern.
Of course there will always be those who disagree with our using their tactics to promote falsehoods that rarely if ever get called out by the M$M, outside of what they recently have started doing - inserting a boilerplate line of "so and so continued to repeat the falsehoods", while still dutifully repeating those GOP falsehoods as if they were "legit", and worth reporting.