LOL... Democrats getting into the real world.....
https://thehill.com/opinion/5153405-martha-mitchell-effect-democrats/
Democrats are quickly falling victim to the Martha Mitchell effect.
For years, we’ve been sounding the alarm on Donald Trump — his corruption, his attacks on democracy, his reckless rhetoric. Much of the country tunes us out. Why? Because when everything is an outrage, nothing is.
We’ve become Martha Mitchell, shouting into the void, convinced that if we just scream louder, voters will finally listen. Worse yet, we keep pulling the wrong fire alarm, so to speak. Instead of making the case for how we’ll actually improve people’s lives, we’ve positioned ourselves as defenders of democracy— a message that might resonate in Washington and in college faculty lounges, but not in the places where elections are decided. And that’s not on the voters — that’s on us.
We’re fighting the wrong battles in the wrong places
Take USAID, for example. When Trump gutted it, Democrats predictably rushed to defend it. And where did we hold our big press conference? Outside a government building in Washington, D.C., talking about the importance of foreign aid. We framed this as a threat to democracy.
Voters didn’t hear that. What they did see and hear was: Here are some more Washington insiders defending more Washington bureaucracy.
https://thehill.com/opinion/5153405-martha-mitchell-effect-democrats/
Democrats are quickly falling victim to the Martha Mitchell effect.
For years, we’ve been sounding the alarm on Donald Trump — his corruption, his attacks on democracy, his reckless rhetoric. Much of the country tunes us out. Why? Because when everything is an outrage, nothing is.
We’ve become Martha Mitchell, shouting into the void, convinced that if we just scream louder, voters will finally listen. Worse yet, we keep pulling the wrong fire alarm, so to speak. Instead of making the case for how we’ll actually improve people’s lives, we’ve positioned ourselves as defenders of democracy— a message that might resonate in Washington and in college faculty lounges, but not in the places where elections are decided. And that’s not on the voters — that’s on us.
We’re fighting the wrong battles in the wrong places
Take USAID, for example. When Trump gutted it, Democrats predictably rushed to defend it. And where did we hold our big press conference? Outside a government building in Washington, D.C., talking about the importance of foreign aid. We framed this as a threat to democracy.
Voters didn’t hear that. What they did see and hear was: Here are some more Washington insiders defending more Washington bureaucracy.
