Ron Flipkowski - The One Big Reason Why Dems Are Losing the Information War [View all]

When I read the interview that Harris Deputy Campaign Manager Rob Flaherty did with Semafor this week where he gave his thoughts on what went wrong with the 2024 election, some key points he made really hit home for me. That is because I said the exact same thing in an article on this platform three days after the election.

Democrats are losing the information/messaging war against Republicans for one major reason - MAGA created an alternative media ecosystem that pumps their messaging out to tens of millions of people every single day while Democrats currently have just a handful of small outlets like Meidas to counter them.

The reason why this has happened is quite simple and obvious - the leaders of the Republican Party and MAGA movement spent years establishing, cultivating, financing, promoting, and amplifying alternative media platforms and content, while the leaders of the Democratic Party have largely ignored them as they continue to feed their messaging and dedicate their time to increasingly less relevant legacy media outlets.

Flaherty said that political campaigns “are the last-mile marketers that exist on terrain that is set by culture, and the institutions by which Democrats have historically had the ability to influence culture are losing relevance. You don’t get a national 8-point shift to the right without losing hold of culture.”

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/the-one-big-reason-why-dems-are-losing