Memo: 2022 Dem Election Narrative Begins to Take Shape
Memo: 2022 Dem Election Narrative Begins to Take Shape
As I review in a new thread this morning, a possible 2022 Democratic campaign narrative is beginning to take shape. It runs something like this:
“For over a decade now irresponsible Republicans have blocked progress on major challenges facing the nation.
With their first governing majority since 2010, Democrats are now offering pragmatic solutions to the challenges we face — defeating COVID, building an economy for all, tackling climate change, improving health care, protecting a women's right to choose, modernizing our immigration system, defending our democracy…..(candidates can tailor the list to their states/districts).
It is who we are, what we are fighting for. A better America.
Republicans, on the other hand, have become radicalized, and are now endangering the public's health, the economy, a women’s right to choose, common sense climate solutions and our democracy. Returning them to power next year would risk so much of the progress being made, and put our democracy itself in peril. “
That’s it. That’s the early 2022 narrative.
Pragmatism and progress vs extremism, radicalization, danger.
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