Florida Democrats are currently in the hands of people who think of the Democratic Party as sort of watered-down Republican Lite. Same donors, same strategies; heck, let’s run Republicans like Murphy and Crist as candidates, even.
Part of the bad dynamic is that we have been ideologically infiltrated, in Florida and around the country. The Republicans drove away their boringest, run-of-the-mill conservatives with their whole Tea Party / snake flag / Fear the immigrants circus, and now they’re here, and they have a great plan for us:
"Be more like Republicans!"
All you have to do is promise all the same favors for all the same people writing checks to Republicans.
This is why one of the Party insiders ran around Orlando recently telling all the caucuses that our biggest issue is that we need to stop being so “anti-business.”
Where does that idea come from, unless you’re talking to Republican-minded donors all day?
It would be one thing if it even worked. But it doesn’t work. This hilariously misnamed “centrist” faction can’t elect their way out of a wet paper money bag, which they’ve proven repeatedly. Their messaging amounts to not offending whoever’s writing the checks.
We’re supposed to win, we are told again and again, based on raw turnout, which we’re apparently supposed to motivate without actually standing up for anything. So again and again we lose, and the spin is always, "Progressives depressed turnout by wanting all those annoying whatchamacallit-policy-thingies."
Somehow, we're told, we're supposed to motivate turnout for warmed-over Republicans in their ill-fitting Democrat suits, without upsetting any of the comfy Chamber of Commerce talking points along the way.
That's not going to happen. We have to give people a reason to vote for us better than, "not as creepy as the Republicans."
Well done.
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