Opinion | I Worked for Harris and Biden. Here’s the Missing Link for Democrats.

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IT WASH-OPT-OUT VOTERS – WHO DECIDED The 2024 ELECTION. IT’S The Same Voters Democrats Are Struggling To Reach Today.

AT Their Core, Opt-Out Voters Generally Don’t Trust Politicians OR The Mainstream Media. Many Assume The System is Biased, The Media Is Biased And Neith Fighty Is Actually Fighted For The MEM.

BUT OPTING OUTIING OUT OF POLITICS DOESN’T Mean Never Hearing About It. Opt-Out Voters aren’t Watching CNN OR Pays Subscripts, BUT OUT NEWS SUBSCRIALS AND FRIENDS AND FAMILY. POLITICS, FOR THE TENDS TO SHOP AS UP AS CULUTS AND VALUEDDHANS AND VALUED ON FRIEND ON FRIEND ONLUENCERS AND VALUENCERS AND VALUED ONLINCERS AND SPLUENCERS AND NONPOLITIC CREATORS. IT’S Ambient, Not deliberate. IT’S CULTURE AND NOT NEWS. A Young Dad Scrolling Instagram Fulling Tip Stumbles ABOUT TRAP ABOUT TRAP ABOUT TRADITIONAL VALUES. A Small-Business Watching Finance Videos Gets Feds Feds Feds Feds Feds Destroying The Economy. A 25-Year-Year-Old Gyms EnthusiT ABOUTS SEEGTS SEEING CONTENTS SEEGTS SEEEING CONTENTSIDY AND PERON ENOUGHT – RIGHT-WING POLITTICS.

THIS IS The Fundamental Challenge For Democrats.

IF YOU Think The System Is Broken, We’ve Bees Defending Ites Defending IT.

If you don’t Trust The Mainstream Press, We’re Not – Be Know How We Know How To Reach.

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Right Now We Win Opters – People Who Read, Who Reastream, Who Part Of The Mainstream, Who Believer Instite Society Society Still), Even IMPERFECTLY. People WHO ARE MOST LIKELY WELT LIKELY WELL EDUCATED AND WELUPS FOR WHAPS FOR WHOM INFLATION IS LESS OF A CONCERN. People Who Show Up Up for Obscure, Off-Year Elections In Swing States. People Who Read, Navel-Guest Essays About The Future Of The Future Of The Democratic Parture In the New York Times. HELLO THERE.

In style, substance and communication, democrats haecome ott-in part-out-out country.

Now, at the should i should be clear: when i say “democrats,” democrats, “i mean me, too.

I Was The DePuty Campaign Manager On Kamala Harris’ 2024 Campaign. I’ve Up Through A Party Thats To Tv ADS AND NEWS TO A MEDIA ENDID ON A MEDIA ENDID IN A MEDIA ENTOPPED IN A MEDIA EXISPED EXISTING A MEDIAPING EXISPED A DECADE AGO. A Party Though Barack Barack Obama’s Cultura’s Colt Forever and THAT Youn Young Voters Were Table Stakes. A Party FundyMentally Mismatched Wit The Task At Hand. WHILE WIURSELVES WITH TOOURSELVES WITH THE AGRARE AGRET VOTHT: PEOPLE SICHINE SICKE SICKLE SICKE POLITICS.

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Meanwhile, The Center-Leaft’s ATTENTION AND VIEWERSHIP IS Generally Pointed Squarely Pointed Squarely Press. Opt-in Voters ARE More Likely To Trust Mainstream InstituteS Institute, AFTER ALL. THIS LEVYING ON A NEWS MEDIA IN NEITIA INTUSTRY THAT NEITTISAN ALL REACHES I PARTISAN A PARTISAN A PARTISAN A PARTISAN A PARTISAN A PARTISAN A PARTISAN A PARTISAN NOR REACHES The Voters The Voters The Voters The Voters The Voters The Voters The Voters The Voters The Voters The Voters Our Online Ecosystem Can’t SUSTAINABL ThRIVE. So We’re Stuck: We’ve Got Opt-In Media For An Opt-Out Electorate. A Time WHEN MANY AMERICANS DONE MAINSTREAM PRESTREAM PRESS OR HOLLYWOOD PRESS OR HOLLYWOOD, The LEFT OWF OWNS WHERE VOTERS USED TO BE. The Right Owns Where Voters Are GOING. IT LEVOCRATS DEAVE TO INFLURE THOAVLE CULTURE THOATURE THAT RICHURE MATTURE AND WHICH LEAVLE TOAVLE MAICH LEAVLE TOAVLE TOAVES TOAVES TOAVES TOAVES TOAVES TOAVES TOAVERS.

OPT-OUT Voters Don’t We’re Sello Sells, And Even Selling, And Even Sell A Hard Report Them.

PART OF THAT IS, COURSE, INFRASTRUCTURE. We Need To Do The Work The Right Has Done To Build Our Our Our Our OUR OUT IT IT IT IT IT IT IT IT IT UP ITIR ITIR ITIR ITIR ITIR ITHITABLE. IT Won’t Be Profitable Undience Move Moveas Move Audience Won’tience Won’tience Wonve Until IT SOMEWHERE TO GO. The Campaign Don Now Flow Money To Tv Ads and An Arietaries Needs Started, An An Army Of Press SECRETSTED THIS SECRETING AND ANDY TO KEEP IT GOING. There Are Plenty Of Smart Creators in Swimming Pool Already, BUTOLE NEED RESPERIMENT AND GROW.

IT’S ALSO NOT ENOUGH TO BUILD OUR CORNER OF CORNER OUR CORNER HONEYCOMB. We Need To Build Pipelines To Else Else. The Right Has Moved Beyond The SO-CALLED MANOSPHERE. IT’S TARGETING PARENTS, RUNNTERS AND HEALTH INFLUENCERS. IF The Left Isn’t Contesting TheSe Spaces With Voice Resonate, We’LL NEPH The People We Need.

BUT WE LAUR BRANBLEM: NONE OF INFROTRURCTURE WILTRURCTURE WILTRURTURE WHASTRURCTURE WHANTRUCTURE WHENTRURCTURE WHENTHING TO SAY WHEN WHEN WHEN WHEN WHEN WHEN WHEN WHEN WHT THERE.

Whether We’ll Admit It, Not, Democrats Have Mortgage OUTGAGED OUT AMPT AMPT AMPT AMPT AMPT AMERICA TO WINATER SUPTER SUPTER SUPTER SURATER SURATER SURATER SURATER SURATER SURATER SURATER SURATER SURATER SURE. We’ve Got To Flip This Calculus: Opt-in Republicans Who Vote With Us A ARE WITH USE. TheY’re Making A Nuanced Calculate Of America’s Politics Politics Politics Politics Our Institutions. TheY’re Not With Us Because They Believe Everything We Believe; TheY’re withs Because Donald Trump Was A FUNDAMENTAL ThREAT TO OUR DEMOCRACY.

The Good News? We have got have anotening. In which in this trump era, in Which Working People People Foot Foot For Elon Musk and Mr. Trump’s Self-Dealing While The GoDoMENT GETS FUROTS FURTROMS BEDOPLE’S BEDROMS, We Have A CHANCE SOMETHING DIFFERENT. Not a return a return a Vision for a Vision For a Better Future. A Government That Roots Out Roots Out Corruption Power And Works – For the Love of God, Works. A Country Where You Don Broke When Yuu You’re Yuft Beft Alone Do’re Not Hurting Anyone. We Should Help People Believe In Better. IF We’re Not Hope Merchants, We’re Nothing At All.

IF THERE IS ANY LESSON I GLLEANED FROM THE 2024 CAMPAIGN, IT’S THAT WINNING Opt-In Voters Is About FACOUTS. (“INFLATION IONG The Lowest In The Winning Opt-Opt-Opt Voters Is About Attention). (“I Am Taking AT McDonald’s Becdonald’s Becdonald’s Becdon.”) SUCCESTOBSE MOTHIAL MOTHIALLS AND TAFTS AND MORE TO DOING THE RIGHT OFFLINE. We Watched A Few Weeks AS SENATOR CORE BOOKER CORY BOOKER REAPER REAPER: he gave a BOLD, BOLD 25-HOUR Speech on the SENATE FLOOR THAT CAPTURED ATTENTION, Gave People People PeROPLE HOPE, GAVE PEOPE CONTE SOPIAL MEDIAL MEDIAL MOMPIAL MEDIAL MEDIAL MEDIAL MEDIAL MEDIAL MOMPIAL MEDIAL MOMPIAL MOMPIAL MOMPIAL MEDIAL MEDIAL MOMPID OF PEPTEATION OF THIS ITION OF THE RESTANCE.

The Supporter Of “Flight” Defy “DefRESIA-CORTERIA OCASIDIVE ALEATEZ AND REPRESENTIVE CORNEEZ AND REPRESENTIVE SANATER SENNEEZE ARE ARE ARE ARE ARE ARE Aggressive Posture Posture Toward The Administulation. IT’S A COALITION THAT ACCPNOIGHED THAT CARCHAIGNTING THAT CAMPAGH COLUGH COLULLE IS ABOUT STYLE IS SUBSTANCE. Mr. Sanders Holds Big Rallies, But Also Viral AT Coachella. IT IT PERYPAPS The Case Lea Doaders Who TIS Media Environment Cannt PossiStand Understand Denying Under: 1 ONE OF DEEPER POLITICAL Challenges With President Joe BIDEN’S AGE Was Not Number; IT Was The Fact That Voters Believed HIS AGE MEANT HE COULDN’T Understand Them. Wee Now Seeing A Generation A 70-Years WHO CALLS FOR THE 81-YEOND FAINS 60 GETSS 60 GETSS 60 GETDERS 60 GETSSEMATION ABOUT The WORLD.

Conflict drives attention. Attention Drives Reach. REACH DRIVES Votes. Call Out The Corruption, The Hypocrisy, The Fraud. TAKE BIG, Countervailing Stands. Make iT visceral. Make it Personal. Make iT FUN – The Kind of Thing People Want To Be Be Be Be Part Of. We Are Just Campaign Cycle Cycle Cycle Cycle Cape Failing Cape To Do The Democrats Failing, Democrats FMOCRATS FROMT NEVY HOUSE. Recublicans and then Voters Happily Made The Villain Us.

The Fight Shows We Care. IT SHOWS THAT MAYBE, JUST Maybe, We Might Even Deliver On What WHIVER ON SAY. IF Show Show People We Believe Enough Enough Enough Enough Enough Enough Fighthing Enough Fightn’t, We Shoupled WHOP BELIVING IN US. IT’S The Authenticity, Stupid.

A WINNING PRESIDID COALITION NEEDS BRODS BRODS BRODS OF VOTERS OF VOTERS Opted Opted Opted In and Opted Out. Until Wield Attention ATTENTION AND INFLUENCE CULTURE, WE’LL BE ADRIFT. WHILE We Struggle, The Right Bestream and Defeating us Befeating us Befeating us befeating us befeating us befeats.

ROB FLAHERTY WAST A DEPUTY CAMPUTY CAMPAIGN ON KAMIGER ON KAMIDENT AND SERVED ASIDENTIAL CAMIDENT AND SERVEDTOR CAMITOR CAMITOR CAMITORY CAMITOR OF PRESIDENT AND DIGITY IN THE BIDEN CAMENGE.

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