Party doesn't need to be slimmed, party members just need to be allowed to get in where they fit in.
I believe
@Pressure point, is that everything within the party does not have to be a coalition.
This is why messaging is so important. You can’t appease everyone in a big tent, but yet Democrats have too many entitled parties who think EVERYONE should agree with EVERYTHING they believe EVERYWHERE and don’t have the mental capacity to learn that’s not how it works. Everyone wants to be in charge. Imagine how the civil rights movement would have gone with some of these groups. Or Vietnam protests.
This thread keeps going off the rails because we have to rehash how we got here when there is no right or wrong answer. It’s over. Dems still have people who should be participating in the tent rehashing Bernie 2016. We have to move on and realize it’s on the voters.
Every battle isn’t a national level battle. Fight in the local arena and then teach the people in the next town or county how to do the same. Every bill doesn’t have to be perfect. Kamala’s campaign tried to slim down the narrative, tell people what could be done, tell people what potentially could be done, and tell everyone what currently is happening was going to happen. People decided single issues: Abortions, Kamala not having a primary, Palestine/Israel, Racism, Sexism, Xenophobia were more important.
Pragmatism is important. Sometimes you have to teach hard lessons for people to understand they took their own lives for granted to justify their selfish wants. Just showing up and helping get bigger stuff done will help further the smaller causes.
And the messaging isn’t poor right now, it’s just that voters tied the Dems’ hands but want them to stop everything. Jeffries is doing the right thing. Crockett is doing the right thing. Harris, Obama and Biden are doing the right thing. Even Carville is doing the right thing.
Fight in the courts. Spread the message. Sit back and be quiet. Go to their turf and let people know how dumb they are. Let Republicans govern.
And the rank and file can get behind any of them. All the wants are to the wayside now.