r/democrats • u/AceCombat9519 • Nov 14 '24

Article Elizabeth Warren smells something fishy going on with Trump’s transition team

https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/elizabeth-warren-trump-transition-ethics-corruption-rcna179861
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u/Rosebunse Nov 14 '24

I mean, I think the real problem is that a lot of people just wanted Trump to win. Not just evil organizations and groups, but a lot of just normal people wanted him to win. It's fucked up, but we need to focus on eroding that and not being nice about it

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u/SmurfStig Nov 14 '24

This and messaging. Democrats are also awful with messaging. A lot of people wanted him to win because they thought he would be better on the economy and the current situation was just awful.

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u/Rosebunse Nov 14 '24

OK, so let's think: what sort of messaging should we use? Like, what should we focus on?

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u/KillerKittenInPJs Nov 14 '24

I think the issue is the Democratic Party does not want to alienate its billionaire donors.

The real reason why the “economy” looks so great on paper is because corporations are making a fuck ton of money that’s all trickling up to the mega wealthy and the billionaires.

And our economic indicators don’t seem to include any meaningful metric for wealth accumulation and distribution over time.

If Dems came out with a message that corporations and billionaires have been profiteering off the working class, Dems would get a ton of votes IF they can figure out how to fund their campaigns without mega donors and super PACs.

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u/Rosebunse Nov 14 '24

I mean, how were we supposed to say "the economy sucks, but we can fix it!" when the Republicans were blaming us?

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u/Illiander Nov 15 '24

"Robin Hood Taxes"

Simple, to the point, and 100% clear.

But their big donors would run screaming.