Defeated ex-Alabama Democrat Senator Doug Jones: ‘We’re not some demonic cult’: Democrats fume over faulty messaging

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‘We’re not some demonic cult’: Democrats fume over faulty messaging

Rank-and-file lawmakers are anxious, but major leadership changes are unlikely.

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"We're not some demonic cult," says a Democrat Senator in effort to re-brand the party as something other than a demonic cult. Of course, it might have helped if they hadn't ALL called rioting and looting "mostly peaceful protests" as cities burned.

 

[Maxdeath]

Democrats are all about power. Any way they can get it. Brown shirt tactics, mislabeling things, even calling rallies superspreaders while encouraging Biden celebrations, looting and rioting.

 

[JackOfNoTrades]

‘We’re not some demonic cult’: Democrats fume over faulty messaging

Rank-and-file lawmakers are anxious, but major leadership changes are unlikely.

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"We're not some demonic cult," says a Democrat Senator in effort to re-brand the party as something other than a demonic cult. Of course, it might have helped if they hadn't ALL called rioting and looting "mostly peaceful protests" as cities burned.

I like Doug Jones but let's face it. The only reason he won his special election is because his name wasn't Roy Moore. Alabama is red...and primarily white. It will remain that way for the foreseeable future.
I gave him no chance at re-election.

 

[White 6]

‘We’re not some demonic cult’: Democrats fume over faulty messaging

Rank-and-file lawmakers are anxious, but major leadership changes are unlikely.

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"We're not some demonic cult," says a Democrat Senator in effort to re-brand the party as something other than a demonic cult. Of course, it might have helped if they hadn't ALL called rioting and looting "mostly peaceful protests" as cities burned.

By in large, they are not. But it worked as they were tarred by the sins of their far left wing that wanted Berni, who ran as a socialist. Just another cheap whine now. Doug should have known better to give that quote. I wish him luck in his civilian career. Doubt it will be in public relations / spokesman type setting.

 

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Democratic Party allowed S.W.P. to infiltrate the party. I was precinct captain years ago .I and others warned the local party about it, but was told that we are ".democratic" what the party didnt get was that the S.W.P. Is not.

 

[White 6]

Democratic Party allowed S.W.P. to infiltrate the party. I was precinct captain years ago .I and others warned the local party about it, but was told that we are ".democratic" what the party didnt get was that the S.W.P. Is not.

And the republican party allowed a Russian/communist/dictator sympathizer to become president. We will be well rid of the impeached asshole soon.

 

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DEMOCRAT CIVIL WAR! IT'S A TRAGEDY!

Tlaib lashes out at centrist Dems over election debacle: ‘I can’t be silent’

In a scathing memo, progressives say centrists are playing into Republicans “divide-and-conquer racism.”

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best excerpts:

“If [voters] can walk past blighted homes and school closures and pollution to vote for Biden-Harris, when they feel like they don't have anything else, they deserve to be heard,” Tlaib said, choking up as she expressed frustration near the end of an interview this week. “I can’t believe that people are asking them to be quiet.”

Tlaib wants to see a public educator and labor advocates in top positions. And the congresswoman has made clear her urgency to the president-elect. When he visited Detroit in October, Tlaib told Biden that “I might not be your favorite member of Congress because I'm on a different timeline, sir.”

A day before Biden was declared the winner, Sen. Bernie Sanders said he will introduce a 100-day agenda of his own into the Senate. “We’re going to have to do everything humanly possible to make sure that Congress and the new president move rapidly and aggressively to address the enormous crisis facing our country,” he said.

Rep.-elect Mondaire Jones of New York said he’s “laser-focused” on what the Justice Department under Biden looks like, and warned against appointing Republicans to key positions. Jones said Democrats should go all out in a pair of Senate runoffs in Georgia to win the majority because he wants Biden to be able to install more “progressive thinkers" as federal judges.

In a contentious call last week among House Democrats, Spanberger — who barely hung onto her Virginia swing district — lambasted liberals. “No one should say ‘defund the police’ ever again” or the party would get “torn apart” in 2022,” she said. Other moderates blamed the left’s call to ban fracking on Democrats’ underwhelming performance down ballot.

“That approach to governance could really threaten party unity and the 2022 midterms, because Mitch McConnell's sole goal will be to make Joe Biden swallow as many toxic poison pills as possible that make it harder to campaign in the midterms,” said Waleed Shahid, a spokesman for Justice Democrats. If McConnell controls the Senate, Shahid said, the fundamental question will be “how much hardball will Democrats play.”

 

[Deplorable Yankee]

‘We’re not some demonic cult’: Democrats fume over faulty messaging

Rank-and-file lawmakers are anxious, but major leadership changes are unlikely.

www.politico.com

"We're not some demonic cult," says a Democrat Senator in effort to re-brand the party as something other than a demonic cult. Of course, it might have helped if they hadn't ALL called rioting and looting "mostly peaceful protests" as cities burned.

I like Doug Jones but let's face it. The only reason he won his special election is because his name wasn't Roy Moore. Alabama is red...and primarily white. It will remain that way for the foreseeable future.
I gave him no chance at re-election.

No its not its like 65%white 30% black and 785% Guatemalan

 

[The Original Tree]

‘We’re not some demonic cult’: Democrats fume over faulty messaging

Rank-and-file lawmakers are anxious, but major leadership changes are unlikely.

www.politico.com

"We're not some demonic cult," says a Democrat Senator in effort to re-brand the party as something other than a demonic cult. Of course, it might have helped if they hadn't ALL called rioting and looting "mostly peaceful protests" as cities burned.

Yah they are a Demonic 666 Globalist New World Order Cult.
They have no love for The LAW, and they lie and cheat and break the law at will with no conscience and no consequences.

 

[Rogue AI]

Democrats are already eating their own. Hopefully this time they shatter their miscreant party.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Tubberville spanked Jones like a redheaded step child

 

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the infighting continues!

 

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Stay focused Dems - we aren’t each other’s enemies...we need to unite against the right before Trump unites the right...again!

 

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Doug is right. Whomever thought the "Defund the Police" slogan was a good call was either a plant or didn't know shit about messaging.

 

[22lcidw]

Doug is right. Whomever thought the "Defund the Police" slogan was a good call was either a plant or didn't know shit about messaging.

Cities will suffer for that. How much I do not know. But I will never trust a pure Prog freak politician in charge of a deep blue area again after this. People have a right to access police protection and a bit of security. Those who pay taxes lost. those who still voted for Progs deserve anything that happens.

 

[BlindBoo]

Doug is right. Whomever thought the "Defund the Police" slogan was a good call was either a plant or didn't know shit about messaging.

Cities will suffer for that. How much I do not know. But I will never trust a pure Prog freak politician in charge of a deep blue area again after this. People have a right to access police protection and a bit of security. Those who pay taxes lost. those who still voted for Progs deserve anything that happens.

Nah it was just a stupid slogan. Nobody wants to abolish law enforcement and it will not be abolished.

 

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If the party believes after 94 percent of Detroit went to Biden, after Black organizers just doubled and tripled turnout down in Georgia, after so many people organized Philadelphia, the signal from the Democratic Party is the John Kasichs won us this election? I mean, I can’t even describe how dangerous that is.

 

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Instead of focusing on what Republicans want, Democrats need to remember who the hell they are. They were the quintessential and original party of the working class. They defend the economic interests and share the values of the average voter. They have consistently won the popular vote of every election in the last two decades. Now they have to start acting like it

 

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Inside the House Democrats’ post-election reckoning

The party’s campaign arm made several strategic errors, leaving their majority in doubt in 2022.

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excerpt:

If Democrats had any hope of seizing back a GOP seat in Virginia’s Trump country in 2020, it rested with Cameron Webb.

Webb — a Black doctor who served in the Obama and Trump administrations — was running against a far-right Republican who was underfunded and opposed gay marriage and birthright citizenship. But in the end, Webb’s message of strengthening health care and rising above partisanship was drowned out, and he lost by 6 points.

“My opponent only talked about three words: Defund the police,” Webb told a group of House Democrats on a private call this week, according to several sources on the line.

"There were ads being run all over the country about socialism and about the Green New Deal and in some parts of the country that didn’t help,” Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) said in an interview. "I think it would be irresponsible for a person in our family — in the Democratic Caucus family — who is concerned about it not to mention it."

Others were more blunt: "From my standpoint, as a moderate Democrat ... it’s crystal clear we need a different message than what we’ve been having,” added Rep. Kurt Schrader (Ore.).

Top Democrats had braced for the GOP police-focused ads. DCCC polled the issue over the summer as nationwide protests over social justice began dominating the headlines, finding it “incredibly damaging,” according to a Democratic strategist familiar with the data.

Shortly after, DCCC partnered with the Congressional Black Caucus’ political arm to attempt to produce a campaign message that addressed the systemic inequalities without handing the GOP a win on the policing debate. They created some ads, including ones focused on policing reform that aired in the Black community in seats held by vulnerable Democrats.

“We want the caucus to be accurately depicted. And if you look at the Democratic Caucus, if you’re going to accurately depict it — unlike what Republicans did — we’re not for defunding the police and we’re not socialists,” Meeks said. “We’re going to be doing all that we can to make sure that we win in Georgia.”

Most endangered Democrats struggled to counter the flood of GOP ads on the issue: Republicans aired roughly 70 different broadcast ads that mentioned “defund the police,” according to data from Advertising Analytics, a media tracking firm.

“Democrat advertising barely uttered a word besides Donald Trump and preexisting conditions and these were messages that just did not move voters down-ticket,” said CLF President Dan Conston. “We spent the better part of a year testing the most effective ways to lay out the Democrats' economic agenda as well as their most radical ideas, when 'defund the police' came up as a core issue.”

In a Staten Island-based seat with a large population of cops and firefighters, CLF saw Democratic Rep. Max Rose’s image rating drop 21 points in the months after they began airing “defund the police” spots

Republicans were relentless as they aired 30-second attack ads that swarmed vulnerable incumbents. In red-leaning districts, such as Democratic Rep. Anthony Brindisi's (D-N.Y.) in upstate New York, the “defund the police” ads emphasized violent protestors and looters. In a purple suburban Philadelphia seat held by GOP Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, who won reelection, the ads featured a mom who worried a smaller police budget would make her family less safe from robbers.

Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-Fla.) said her biggest takeaway from the GOP’s upset in South Florida, where two incumbents were unseated, is that Democrats failed to take her warning seriously in early 2019 that GOP attacks on “socialism” were resonating with her home state’s expat community, including many Cubans and Venezuelans who fled communist regimes decades earlier.

“I'm not sure that as a party we took that attack head on, and provided our counter narrative,” Murphy said. “It’s not enough to say what you’re not, you have to define what you are. And we have to define it in a way that doesn’t scare the American people.”

But other Democrats argue that the overall strategy and message mattered less than the GOP’s turnout. Vulnerable incumbents were suddenly — and unexpectedly — forced to outperform Biden by double-digits, and many simply couldn’t, showing the strength and popularity of Trump.

“Expectations did get high. But if we’re being honest, it wasn't just expectations. We all missed something in our analytics and our polling data, and we really have to take a deep objective look at what we’re missing,” said Rep. Ami Bera (D-Calif.), chairman of the moderate New Dems Action Fund. “We’ve got to break the party down and rebuild what our brand is.”