I think the problem in 2009 with big, strong, bold, was that it was a program that took too long to show results. We can go big, strong, bold today with impact as long as the results are quickly felt. Putting money into our citizens hands immediately, providing vaccinations as soon as possible, buttressing health care; all of these can quickly felt and appreciated.
If the Democrats lose their fingernail hold on Congress in 2022, it won't be because of what they did or didn't do on behalf of the people. With the support of Fox News, Newsmax, One America, etc., the GOP will get at least one-third of the country (i.e., Republicans) to object to what the Democrats do, no matter what. Remember how many of the people who vilified Obamacare thought the Affordable Care Act would be great?
We should learn and take advantage of the GOP's consistent objection to anything the Democrats want to do, without gradation, and be bold. We should say we want to unify and then blame the GOP as we do the opposite. We'll get the same criticism from Hannity, Ingraham and Tucker regardless, and the same both-side-isms from the MSM.
Senator Schumer is right, up to the point where he says that people will want to "stick with this" when they're juiced up by racism and nastiness. Those people won't change their distorted views.
We have two years to make great progress and two subsequent years to keep the GOP from destroying it (assuming they'll get the Senate back and possibly the House). By 2024, the GOP will be smaller due to natural death of its older constituents and its alienation of educated whites and women, and a huge number of pissed off progressive Gen Zs will be eligible to vote. That's when those “big, strong, bold” actions will pay off, as long as we take them now.
I think the problem in 2009 with big, strong, bold, was that it was a program that took too long to show results. We can go big, strong, bold today with impact as long as the results are quickly felt. Putting money into our citizens hands immediately, providing vaccinations as soon as possible, buttressing health care; all of these can quickly felt and appreciated.
If the Democrats lose their fingernail hold on Congress in 2022, it won't be because of what they did or didn't do on behalf of the people. With the support of Fox News, Newsmax, One America, etc., the GOP will get at least one-third of the country (i.e., Republicans) to object to what the Democrats do, no matter what. Remember how many of the people who vilified Obamacare thought the Affordable Care Act would be great?
We should learn and take advantage of the GOP's consistent objection to anything the Democrats want to do, without gradation, and be bold. We should say we want to unify and then blame the GOP as we do the opposite. We'll get the same criticism from Hannity, Ingraham and Tucker regardless, and the same both-side-isms from the MSM.
Senator Schumer is right, up to the point where he says that people will want to "stick with this" when they're juiced up by racism and nastiness. Those people won't change their distorted views.
We have two years to make great progress and two subsequent years to keep the GOP from destroying it (assuming they'll get the Senate back and possibly the House). By 2024, the GOP will be smaller due to natural death of its older constituents and its alienation of educated whites and women, and a huge number of pissed off progressive Gen Zs will be eligible to vote. That's when those “big, strong, bold” actions will pay off, as long as we take them now.