The Friday Focus #8: The Post-Post-Mortem

Hey friends,

Happy Friday!

Earlier this week I wrote a bit of a post-mortem on the 2024 Presidential election. You can read it here. Long story short, though: Democrats need to reconnect with the median voter, and do it fast. The Trump GOP is speed walking itself into long-term irrelevancy, and the only thing propping up Trumpism is a DNC that is out of touch with the elctorate.

Here’s everything else I wanted to share this week:

I’m the Governor of Kentucky. Here’s How Democrats Can Win Again. 
(5 minutes): A lot of the post-election analysis seems to be focusing either on the Democratic Party doubling down on its values or meeting moderates where they are. Governor Andy Beshear makes a compelling case that Democrats can and must do both. It’s that the Democrats need to suddenly change what they believe to win; they just need to talk and act like normal human beings for a change.

Liberalism Has a Communications Problem (10 minutes): A great addendum to Tuesday’s article, and a complementary article to Beshear’s op-ed. The failure of the Democratic Party to defeat a rabidly illiberal Republican Party puts the fate of the western liberalism on which the United States was founded at risk. We need to communicate liberal values better.

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