General Discussion

All these issues are complex, of course.

You might be able to construct a true, slogan-length Democratic solution to them. That absolutely does not mean that the public will believe the Democratic one over the Republican one.

If you're trying to come up with something for inflation, you're going to fail because deep blue democratic cities are the most expensive places to live in the country. They've been so for a while but over the last decade they've become impossibly so. People don't believe Democrats can handle inflation as it relates to cost of living because they haven't.

Similarly with immigration, people are still mostly in favor of legal immigration but support for illegal immigration and uncontrolled migrant entry seeking asylum is deeply unpopular. You might be able to find a slogan to rally support for legal immigration but don't bother with the other two, they're way outside the mainstream. Ultimately, you're stuck with another problem. There are many, many traditional democratic voters that are actually against legal immigration too. Just look at the conversations about H1B visas whenever they come up here on DU. Craft whatever message you want but people need to trust that the democrats will limit illegal immigration, uncontrolled migrant entry, and the perceived underlying issues underpinning opposition to legal immigration.

I've said before, maybe not here on DU, but to the people I've talked to, that it is perfectly rational to support a policy when it is promoted by Democrats and oppose the exact same policy when it is promoted by Republicans. It's seems hypocritical but it isn't. Why? Because I believe Democrats. We have to regain that trust by building, by being effective, and by defending accomplishments not just from those that seek to undo them but from those that seek to diminish them. That way, when we do come up with slogan length talking points, people don't say "yeah, right", they say, "yeah, let's do that".