Do roudy crazy rallies work for Dems? Is this a strategy for Dems?

[NNguyenMD]

[handmade34]

2. no n/t

[NCjack]

3. No to Trump-style rallies, but I think that Trump showed us something

that the DEM prez should add to the communications tool box.

Our DEM prez is too distant from our DEM supporters and the general public. Maybe once a month, go to city and give a State-of-the-Issue speech on a topic of local interest. Meet with state, county, and city DEM politicians.

[SheltieLover]

4. Great idea!

[JHB]

11. It's something even older than Trump. It's picking up a lesson from Gingrich...

...although stripping it of Newt-slime.


Always stay visible, always sell what you're doing for your people, to your people.

Self-Promotion.

It's a schoolbook lesson: If you don't toot your own horn, nobody's going to toot it for you.

Especially not the mainstream media as it's currently configured, if you're a Democrat.

(if you're a Republican, well, we wouldn't want anyone accusing us of "liberal media bias," so we won't toot for you, but we'll promote your farts as toots.)

[NCjack]

14. I had forgotten about Newter doing his horn tooting.

[JHB]

16. A lot of people forget that...

...just as a lot of people wonder "are Republican pols really that afraid that Trump will tweet about them?" yet forget that for the last quarter century those same pols have been in abject terror that Rush Limbaugh might single them out if they run afoul of him.

Any Republican who downplayed him or his importance was on his show within 24 hours (48 tops) trying out for the Olympic backpedaling team. "Oh, no, Rush. I said nothing of the sort. The lying liberal media took my words out of context, just like you always say, just like they always do. I think you're a swell guy, Rush! Just like the rest of us."

[Delarage]

5. Obama had some big rallies

I'm not going to lie, I felt energized by them.

[Codeine]

6. Gross.

Plus, a certain New England curmudgeon was famous for rallies — how’d that work for him?

[murdock744]

7. Exactly

Puke on big rallies.. Hope to NEVER see them used again by Democrats.. Don't need em

[StarryNite]

8. No

Those cultish things creep me out.

[JI7]

9. Fuck no. Obama got crowds but he was like a scholarly orator

and talked if positive things. In fact he even told people not to boo anytime he brought up the other side.

[Tien1985]

10. Yes, I think so

No one I knew went to Obama rallies for the scholarship. They enjoyed getting worked up and being excited. The party has felt flatter since he left office.

[JI7]

15. He was inspiring in a positive way. It wasn't Rowdy.

[Klaralven]

12. It only works if you have a natural Boris Yeltsin type leader

[betsuni]

13. No, Democrats don't depend on working people up with emotion.

Liberals prefer to think. That's why we're ... ahem ... elites, or "coastal elites" in this anti-intellectual country.