General Discussion

suburban middle class swing voters is not working well enough" -

OK, yes, I misunderstood that. I thought you were splitting democrats.

On this, if it truly is the strategy then it needs to stop. Unions need to be our first priority, along with anyone else who is working for a living. The way I always think of it is if you need to be at your job (whatever it is, making a widget, a hamburger, or putting together a big deal as a marketing or corporate manager ...) - but if you need that money to live - you are a worker. The very wealthy - who inherit wealth or otherwise come into it - those are the folks like the Kennedys, Trump, Musk, etc - who have never really had to work in order to know their rent/mortgage is paid - those are the owners.

We need to be with the workers (to simplify), and we can expand so that lower income republicans (especially folks like small business owners who really have more in common with us if they think about it - these I suspect are your Panera people), can feel welcome. But bottom line we're for workers.

I think we are, in fact, on the same page. Unfortunately, I think these categories will become even clearer when Trump/Musk take over and start taking away things everyone has depended on - from O/T to programs that help small businesses. And Democrats better be ready to welcome everyone. We need them.