Republicans voted to repeal Obamacare dozens of times knowing it would fail. Every single vote generated headlines. They understood that official government action gets media coverage in a way that "messaging" doesn't. Dems keep not learning this.

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There’s also enormous value in just saying “this shit is illegal and thus impeachable.” Even if nothing comes of it, it’s good to forcefully stand up and say what any sane person can see as fundamentally true.
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To be honest gleefully learning the wrong lessons at every available opportunity seems to be the hallmark of the Democrats.
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I figure a good way to 'focus on corruption' would be trying to impeach the president for that said corruption. Like you said, it would generate headlines and those headlines could be exactly what they are claiming to focus on.
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Also, republicans do have their primary talking points but they don't avoid flooding the field with anything they can get their hands on. You don't have to only focus on one thing. They hammer every nail they can find while still being able to pivot back to their favorite talking points.
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Exactly. I would at least like Dems to hold hearings on all of trump’s law breaking and disgustingness. The murder video he posted last night seems already forgotten. Dems could get the media to cover dozens of stories that haven’t been fully reported. Just since yesterday we have the steel and arch
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They know.
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That’s my fear as well. They can’t be this fucking stupid. They’re fine with the status quo.
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Yes! People seem to forget that it was actually Republican *strategy* to use the sham Benghazi investigation to chip away at Hillary Clinton's approval numbers in the years ahead of her inevitable 2016 run! Kevin McCarthy accidentally admitted it! bsky.app/profile/cortelyouu.bsky.social/post/3mj5ygruo3s27
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Republicans spent 50 years trying to overturn Roe and they finally did it and the backlash to them only lasted one election cycle for it. Trying matters in so many ways beyond whether or not it succeeds. It tells voters what you care about as a party!
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Thank you for hammering these points. Yes, we’re the super informed people in the “bubble”. But if the Dems do not act like Trump is committing the worst possible offenses under the constitution [Which he is, to our material detriment], why would expect normies to believe the same.
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I think they’re lazy af, but also see it as media saying, Trump derangement! Dems lose again!
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Kevin McCarthy, September 2015: www.vox.com/2015/9/30/9423339/kevin-mccarthy-benghazi

She had a 66% approval rating in 2011. By the time of McCarthy's quote, they'd chipped away at it into the 40s.
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*Trump nukes Tehran*

Hakeem Jeffries: 'The only explosion I'm concerned with is the exploding price of beef. This president is committing genocide against the budgets of hard working American families!'
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The Democratic leadership seems to have no strategy. Both Jeffries and Schumer are Israel first, milquetoast stooges.
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All of those millions Democrats have spent on consultants and you hit the nail on the head for free.
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They’re “doing something” actually resonates with people!
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In "worst takes I've ever seen" I said the same thing. Doing something for a party that focus groups says is weak and indifferent is better than nothing. It's ok to try and fail.

Then a weirdo Blue MAGA type went, "Well Trump invaded Iran and failed and people hate him more"
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