Democrats Have an Opening on Housing
In case we want a message other than "sorry about 2020"
What’s the Democrats’ message? “Orange man bad'“? I mean, yes, that’s the honest answer. “That wasn’t me throwing bags of piss at cops in Portland five years ago”? That’s a message we use, too. “I’m sorry that I once supported giving anyone who crosses the border complimentary gender reassignment surgery, a taxpayer-funded job, and $1,000 cash every week for life, I ate some expired yogurt and was hallucinating but I’m all better now”? All of these messages are in the mix, but I’m not sure that any of them are winners.
Democrats need messages that speak to the challenges in people’s lives. Life, despite being generally easier than it’s ever been, is still really fucking hard. Everything costs too much. Work blows. The Star Wars franchise is shit, last year’s World Series was the goddamned Yankees versus the motherfucking Dodgers, and — I’m just going to say it — your kids are ugly. Voters want a message about removing the barriers that stand between them and their goals, and if that message happens to be true, that’s a nice little bonus.