Democrats Post-Roe Message To Voters Is Bad, Opinion

[Demovictory9]

As a reward for voting, the agenda for which these voters voted in historic numbers has been largely stalled, or derailed completely, not by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) but rather by two Democratic senators more interested in grandstanding for the cameras than in getting things done. And voters have watched as the very ideology they soundly rejected is advanced by a Supreme Court hellbent on accomplishing through the courts what Republicans have failed to accomplish at the ballot box.

For years, Republicans have been explicit with their voters: vote for us and we will use a take-no-prisoner approach to using every lever of power to advance the agenda. It has been a widely successful strategy for them. It has allowed them to do everything from pack the Supreme Court to pass former President Donald Trump's tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy with 50 votes in the Senate, instead of the usual 60.

Republicans play for keeps, and their voters know it. It is time for Democrats to play by the same playbook.


To win, Democrats must replicate the Republican strategy. Democrats need to drop the generic vote blue and "everything will be OK" message and make an explicit pact with voters: If you reward us with an even bigger majority, Democrats will get rid of the filibuster and end senators Joe Manchin and Krysten Sinema's unlimited veto power over an agenda the vast majority of Americans support.

Democrats need to be clear that if voters deliver them a slightly expanded majority, they will codify Roe into law, pass universal background checks for gun purchases, restore voting rights, expand the Supreme Court to restore balance, and advance much-needed economic relief with 50 votes, not 60. It's what the Republicans would do.

https://www.newsweek.com/democrats-post-roe-message-voters-bad-opinion-1719533

[Progressive dog]

1. The Democrats, message to voters is the simple truth.

The Republicans started after choice from day one. Republicans have used their anti abortion stand for over 20 years to win elections even though the polls show that the majority of potential voters are not on their side.
IMO Voters who support choice have to finally turn out to vote. If they don't, they will have to live with the choice they made. This authoritarian idea that every member of a party should vote and think the same has not and never will happen as long as we still live in a democracy.