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On 16 Feb 2022, Molly Bolt <
mollythebolt666@gmail.com> posted some news:
83dbda27-aa6a-4afc-b2b8-5bac6577a314n@googlegroups.com:
Democrats are just a bunch of stupid fucks.
The skill at which Donald Trump excels is creating a master narrative and ensuring every American hears it — no consultants needed. That is what he
did in 2016 and will try to repeat if he runs for president again. The
first time was about draining the Washington swamp. Now it is about
Democrats stealing elections. Had Trump put his 2016 horse through an
advisory committee, it would have come out as a camel. But he stuck to his
own counsel.
The key to Trump’s unlikely success, which Democrats seem predisposed to
miss, is to speak plainly to as wide a group of Americans as possible at
the same time, even when the product is nihilism. It is the opposite of
the microtargeting that Democratic consultants so love. This is an irony,
since Democrats claim to represent “the people”. Fighting for ordinary Americans is a far harder sell when your marketing is tailored to so many different ones.
Many of President Joe Biden’s difficulties can be traced to his party’s
habit of thinking about Americans in categories — suburban women, people
of colour, blue-collar whites, Hispanics, sexual minorities, male college graduates and so on. Americans have far more in common than this mindset admits. The theory is that lots of slices add up to most of the American
pie. Yet focusing on what divides people also reinforces their
differences.
The problem is not just with the messaging. The packaging also warps the content. Biden’s “build back better” plan ought to have been a triumph of popular measures — lower drug prices, paid leave, better childcare and
higher taxes on the rich. Once it got into the hands of congressional Democrats, however, it descended into a tangled mess of competing
interests. When everyone is a priority, nobody is.
Amid the wrangling, Biden’s most popular ideas have been watered down or junked. The result is a bill that caters best to the most powerful slice
of Americans — the very wealthy. They can sleep easy now that the carried interest loophole, which allows private equity partners to be taxed at
lower than ordinary income rates — as Warren Buffett pointed out, they pay
a lower tax rate than their secretaries — is probably safe. As it stands,
the bill will also give wealthy Americans a bigger tax cut than they got
from Trump’s big 2017 tax bill.
How could a party that speaks for “the people” give away the most to those
who least need it? The answer is simple; the Democratic party does not
agree on what it means by the people. The party’s agglomeration of
subgroups amounts to less than the sum of its parts. This makes it much
simpler for the most organised interests — wealthy liberals living in
high-tax states, such as New York and California — to get their way. The outcome is morally objectionable. Jason Furman, Barack Obama’s former
economic adviser — and thus in no sense a radical — calls the tax giveaway “obscene”. It is also tactical malpractice since it lets Republicans label Democrats as hypocrites.
https://www.ft.com/content/5a7b2081-7049-4942-bdee-96499c3dab3b
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