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  1. Per Perry Bacon, this is from Blue Rose, which is David Shor's consulting firm. And it demonstrates the entire problem with popularism, which is to try to lean in to what people already believe rather than try to convince anyone of anything. It is a ticket to disaster.

    It is hard to quote from the memo without repeating its pseudoscience message testing framework. But it leans into distract/stunt and states, "messages that centered on D.C.’s low crime rates, the violation of Democratic norms, and rising authoritarianism were unfortunately highly unconvincing."

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  2. It is hard to quote from the memo without repeating its pseudoscience message testing framework. But it leans into distract/stunt and states, "messages that centered on D.C.’s low crime rates, the violation of Democratic norms, and rising authoritarianism were unfortunately highly unconvincing."

    Ask and you shall receive. I was sent a polling/strategy memo that is being circulated in DC. It offers advice to Dems on Trump sending the National Guard to DC. "Distract" is used 10 times. "Stunt" four. I'll try to post it later, but I assume others have it as well.

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  3. I get what he’s saying but we are beyond the consensus politics he thinks we are still in.

    Jeffries on Trump planning a military crackdown in Chicago: "We should continue to support local law enforcement and not simply allow Donald Trump to play games with the lives of the American people as part of his effort to manufacture a crisis and create a distraction because he's deeply unpopular"

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