I don't think the problem is so much that Dems' messaging was bad. Compelling and accurate narratives were out there to be found, for people who looked. The Harris campaign made the narrative case.
Trump won because ~7 million Biden voters decided to stay home. They stayed home because Fox News and other GOP-aligned media supplied whatever excuse they personally needed to justify staying home.
The right-wing machine has a comforting lie for every grievance or complaint under the sun. For every gripe one might have, there are five well-funded right-wing liars out there offering a self-indulgent and comforting excuse. Lots of people were looking for excuses to do nothing, and right-wing media made sure those excuses were in abundant supply.
This country is awash in far-right propaganda. It doesn't matter what Dems' message is if nobody hears it, or if they've already been inoculated against it by comforting lies.
I disagree with the unfocused approach. Think of what happened with the court cases against Trump. Rather than focus on one really good case (probably the documents or Georgia), they went after simultaneous cases, on top of E. Jean Carroll and the New York Trump org. case. What happened?
For various reasons, some of the stronger cases started to crumble, which diluted the conviction in the weaker/less important and politically salient cases and helped create a narrative of judicial persecution that undeniably helped Trump win the nomination and maybe helped in the general. This will happen with the strategy you outline here. Democrats will go after everything he says and does as a major scandal. But some of them will miss.
People will pick up on the fact that sometimes when people cry wolf the wolf never appears. That will weaken the case against the genuine bad things. It only takes one or two misfires to create a narrative of hysteria and Trump Derangement Syndrome. Noble lies don't work.
How many lies did Anthony Fauci tell during Covid? Unfortunately, it was more than zero, which destroyed his credibility at a time when he needed to be completely honest. This will happen to democrats if they follow your strategy.
I don't think the problem is so much that Dems' messaging was bad. Compelling and accurate narratives were out there to be found, for people who looked. The Harris campaign made the narrative case.
Trump won because ~7 million Biden voters decided to stay home. They stayed home because Fox News and other GOP-aligned media supplied whatever excuse they personally needed to justify staying home.
The right-wing machine has a comforting lie for every grievance or complaint under the sun. For every gripe one might have, there are five well-funded right-wing liars out there offering a self-indulgent and comforting excuse. Lots of people were looking for excuses to do nothing, and right-wing media made sure those excuses were in abundant supply.
This country is awash in far-right propaganda. It doesn't matter what Dems' message is if nobody hears it, or if they've already been inoculated against it by comforting lies.
I disagree with the unfocused approach. Think of what happened with the court cases against Trump. Rather than focus on one really good case (probably the documents or Georgia), they went after simultaneous cases, on top of E. Jean Carroll and the New York Trump org. case. What happened?
For various reasons, some of the stronger cases started to crumble, which diluted the conviction in the weaker/less important and politically salient cases and helped create a narrative of judicial persecution that undeniably helped Trump win the nomination and maybe helped in the general. This will happen with the strategy you outline here. Democrats will go after everything he says and does as a major scandal. But some of them will miss.
People will pick up on the fact that sometimes when people cry wolf the wolf never appears. That will weaken the case against the genuine bad things. It only takes one or two misfires to create a narrative of hysteria and Trump Derangement Syndrome. Noble lies don't work.
How many lies did Anthony Fauci tell during Covid? Unfortunately, it was more than zero, which destroyed his credibility at a time when he needed to be completely honest. This will happen to democrats if they follow your strategy.