Barack Obama Gives Crucial Advice To Democrats Following 2025 Election Wins

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51. More than if we don't run on bold ideas

I know this is scary because Dems, by and large, haven't run on bold ideas for several generations. And when people like Bernie, AOC and Mandani run on very specific proposals, those selfsame 2 generations do a collective freakout. "Oh that will never pass into law." "Oh that's too much for suburban voters." "Oh, the Republicans will call us bad names. We can't do that."

But progress is where the energy is. We can win some elections the familiar old way because Republicans always over-reach, and their policies are really, really unpopular. But the bottom line is that for most voters, the candidate that promises concrete things and shows some passion to fight for those ideas, generally wins, even if people know in their heart that the ideas are probably bad ones.

In our case, just about everything I listed is a very popular idea. It is too long. To have the brand work for all Dems, the list would have to be condensed.somewhat. I presented that list because it is full of action-oriented examples, not just empty rhetoric that says nothing and promises nothing.

So, tell me, what ideas on that list do you think are a turn-off in places like Kansas, Ohio, or South Carolina?

Overturning Citizen's United sounds wonky. It would have to be stated as getting corporate and billionaire money out of politics.

The fairness doctrine would take some education, and would have to be framed in light of today's media, but most people understand the media is a mess, and getting worse with AI.

And so on. I didn't represent this as the perfect list, only as an example of what it would look like for candidates to present real actionable ideas.

But I categorically reject the idea that people in "Red America" don't want many of the things on this list.