Liberal Strategist: Democrats Should Mimic Donald Trump’s Policies
Democrats are losing elections because their radical equity agenda is frightening normal people who are focused on jobs and wages, according to Ruy Teixeira, an important Democratic strategist whose 2002 book helped to create the modern Democratic Party.
Democrats “would be on much stronger ground [in 2024] if they became identified with an inclusive nationalism that emphasizes what Americans have in common and their right not just to economic prosperity but to public safety, secure borders and a world-class but non-ideological education for their children,” Teixeira wrote on his substack blog, The Liberal Patriot.
But the political need to move towards Trump’s centrist — but also chaotic and combative — “America First” platform will be difficult, Teixeira admitted, Progressives are contemptuous of the Republicans, Democrats and other Americans who disagree with their never-ending equity agenda, he noted:
This [political move] may strike many Democrats as terribly unfair; [They would say] why should Democrats try to do this when GOP attacks are so cynically motivated and so many in their own ranks are guilty of holding truly reactionary and extreme cultural views?
To explain the progressives’ current mistakes, Teixeira cited the example of immigration, which he covered in a November 10 column – READ MORE
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