Fear factor of the Democratic Party | Vanity Fair
When we entered the second week of Trump Trump II: The march towards authoritarianism, it became clear that Project 2025 always the agendaEQUAL Donald Trump gained overwhelming With extremist actions, tariff threats and other news moves. Trump Trump everywhere again, declare Politico on Saturday, while Steve Bannon flush ARRIVE The Washington Post About the new government is overwhelming the system.
With Trump once again dominated public attentionIt is worth reflecting, once again, about hell is the 2024 cycle if only considering how the Democratic Party can bring the speaker in the future more effectively. From Barack ObamaIn my opinion, twice run successfully, in my opinion, it was too careful to allow candidates to be themselves. Kamala Harris Having done a great job in September last year in a debate with Trump, before seemed to disappear in the coming weeks. Like Politico frame it Before that, Trump Trump was everywhere. Dems worried about why Harris did not.
Her running partner, Tim Walz, emerging On the national stage by defeating the strange republic on cable news, it also became less visible in the last road of the campaign. Admittedly, Walz Are not do so In his debate against JD Vance, But instead of pumping content to go beyond it whether in the form of hits or television videos, Walz Walz has withdrawn from titles. As a democratic strategist gave it to me in a text, Wal Walz was a Ferrari. The Harris campaign jumped into the driver’s seat and drove it around the lowest device until the engine was delayed.
Harris-Walz campaign, despite the initial excitement ofAnd joy– Hillary Clinton And Joe Biden, As if they do not like risks when participating in the media or using social media. That does not mean that Mrs. Clinton did not interview, but of NPR question Regarding whether she was the one who dodged the press or not, he set out in the last months of the 2016 race, showing a perception, at least, that the candidate was closed. . But in the 2024 election (he finally escaped), a Axios title whistleCommunication of Biden Biden; The same website, many months later, describe Harris’s approach to the press is like Bid Biden’s strategy for difficult interviews. Certainly, you can get a sophistry with some of these titles, and their framing, but they have contributed to the perception that democratic candidates have been closer.
For me, the biggest failure of the Democratic Party is not at the candidate level, but at the level of people, but a consultation class that seems to be isolated from the escape from the president to become fish. more multiplied. There may be advisors that are meant to urge candidates to continue Joe RoganPodcast or write that spicy tweet. But the result was a timid campaign, especially against a guy To be Sit down with Rogan and post all types of tools turning on social media.
The Harris group did not react to a number of attacks from the right, including the attack that Trump and him Ally seize About the candidate said in 2019 that she supported Care confirms gender for prisoners. There is a belief that if we only respond to this trans ad to the national and large state battlefield ads, we will win, David Plouffe, A top advisor, speak After the election Pod Save America. “I don’t think it’s true.”
But a second democratic strategist showed this campaign, so he responded stronger to Trump’s ad. Fear Fear is making our party too slow, the strategist told me. Future candidates must immediately challenge the frame of their positions. If they say that you are more concerned about transgender surgery for prisoners rather than costs, which should be placed straight in minutes.
The mainstream media, in which I am a member, does not play a similar manager, but it has done a few campaign cycles before. Candidates have more opportunities than ever to answer at this time through social media, to quickly repel a story before it consolidates or wades into public debates.
And if Biden, or then Harris, will not attract attention, you can bet that Trump will fill the space with controversial comments and wild statements, will spread in the truth of the commune. Association or X, YouTube or Tiktok. For the Democratic Party DO Make their presence feel in the social media, just find Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, A politician living online and Enter the competition Last weekend between Trump’s tariff threats to Colombia.
A collection of different characters of Mrs. Clinton, Biden and Harris, with their own unique skill sets and challenges is the consulting culture that seems to control them. It is the McKinsey-ing of democratic candidates. Messaging campaign is not anything like a formula. Message campaigns like jazz, Stu Loeser, A veteran democratic media strategist, telling me. You must feel the rhythm of what is happening around you and weave your notes. It was Coltranee, not a cold calculation.
The obsession with data, negative fears, trying to control every moment possible, these are what holds the presidential candidates of the Democratic Party. A culture of the second guess helps you candidates can have less negative, but can also struggle with voters. We are far away from the 2028 cycle, but the morality of those who stop fear, should serve today’s democratic politicians when Trump rises forward with the vision of the radical Republican party for the United States.
