General Discussion

I think this is well said.

Democratic spokespeople are allowing Republicans to set the agenda. The Republicans know that they will win if they claim to care about ordinary people while we care only about "special interest groups." (They've been using that trick for quite a while. I think they used that phrase against Jimmy Carter in 1980.)

"Special interest groups" is code for whatever the Republicans think their voters won't like - which is a very wide selection of things.

The Democratic Party needs to fight back with more outrage and more pressure on what really matters to us. We need politicians who say "How dare you not increase minimum wage and improve working conditions?!! Look at these conditions!! (Run video of poor working conditions) This is a disgrace! Elect me and I will fix it."

Continue down the line with issues that matter to voters.

When Republicans run ads accusing us of caring "only" about trans people, for instance, respond with more outrage. "How dare you pick on the 123 trans people who are in prison?! How is abusing them helping anything? What is wrong with you?" And then pivot right back to increasing minimum wage, affordable housing etc.