'Popularism' Won't Help If Voters Think Your Party Is The Antichrist

[Person of Interest]

Republicans run on banning all abortions, increasing the availability of guns, and cutting taxes on the rich, none of are popular. They win anyway. Why?

https://crooksandliars.com/2021/10/democrats-david-shor-popularism

[ColinC]

1. Running on popular policies

> running on popular rhetoric

[Irish_Dem]

2. Racism

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Dems are tainted by hatred from the Right which grabs one idea as a lightning rod

In 2016 it was same-sex bathrooms. In 2020 defund the police. Today it's mask mandates. We should have called it mask protection to show how it helps each of us. Instead it became about an evil government making each of us mask up.

The solution to our problems may be to simply attack better. We need to brand the GOP for what it is. Corruption and violence are still unpopular.

[RussBLib]

7. Attack better?

How about any attack at all?

[lark]

4. They cheat wholesale.

They make it really hard for people in urban areas to vote and super easy for rural folks to vote. They gerrymander the hell out of the districts and if that doesn't work - they just scream fraud & in 2 states no Democrat can ever win because Repug legislatures can overthrow any election with zero proof required. They are nothing but frauds and cheaters & destroyers.

[FakeNoose]

5. That's it - in a nutshell

They don't even care if they're popular or not. It's all about cheating to win.

[Midnight Writer]

6. Intensity. They have a coalition of single-issue voters, who get out and vote every time.

Gun rights, anti-abortion, religious dominionism, immigration.

It is easier to move people through fear and anger than to move them to follow dreams of a better world for all.

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. The original No More Mister Nice Blog title makes more sense and fits the article body

"If Your Voters Think the Other Party is the Antichrist, You Don’t Need 'Popularism'"

https://nomoremister.blogspot.com/2021/10/if-your-voters-think-other-party-is.html

I don't know why Crooks & Liars changed it. It's not about "voters" in general thinking Democrats are the antichrist, and therefore popularism won't help Democrats; it's about Republicans and their existing voters, who have been brainwashed into thinking that the Democrats are the antichrist, so Republicans don't have to bother with popularist (or popular) policies or messages.