If the recommendation to Democrats was to speak plainly, casually, like a normal person having a real conversation rather than like a politician stumbling through jargon, they’d be gushing about Mamdani and telling Dems to be more like him.
But they’re not, because they really mean something else.
you’ll notice that Third Way isn’t concerned about management speak as much as they want Dems to use their management speak.
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That's one of the things I loved about Tim Walz: he sounded like a person, and a person whose policies made sense, at that.
The point of the DNC is to do all the stuff that resulted in Trump in the first place, even harder.
They're not leftists, they're GOP Lite.
wonder if at this point advisors like that are republican double agents tryng to guarantee that democrats lose
Part of the quandary in this whole language discussion is that we know the debate on appropriate terminology is one-sided. Dems will fight internally over “unhoused” etc, while the other side calls them vermin without constraint.
Well, yes.
Maybe. But I think it is a good recommendation to Dems to look at Mamdani's campaign style and campaign strategies and use him as a model. (BTW I think his policies are not the magic behind his popularity or the cause of the silence and hesitation from people like Jefferies. His policy ideas are
This observation really exposes the whole enterprise.
Will be interested to see if the jargon police correctly praise Mamdani, or just ignore him
This makes sense.
Overused word of the year is “distraction”. It minimizes the gravity of any given situation. Allows politicians to skim over difficult topics and not address real solutions; this week it’s all about unlawful fed takeovers and gerrymandering.
They. Are you talking about Dem leaders Schumer and Jeffries?
Yep. There's a perfect correlation between Third Way's words not to be used and Third Way's policies not to be pursued.
“Scavenger hunt!”
TW: not that regular
Is “weird “ on the list? Muzzling Walz took the energy out of the Harris-Walz campaign. What a terrible mistake that was.
How in hell are people still talking about this nonsense item in Playbook?
The best real advice would be to start cursing deliberately and passionately in public
He’s literally writing the playbook they should be using and instead of taking the lessons…
Dems need plain, direct, jargon-free communication. You know, like this: bsky.app/profile/pale...
Bob and Eileen Bailey were so incensed that an Oberlin professor said “intersectional” that they had no choice but to vote for fascism.
What they want is for Dems to become 1980s Republicans because the current Republican party has gone insane. It's not our fault they made a Faustian bargain then lost control. They should take back their own party or form a new one and stop trying to turn Democrats into old Republicans.
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And this really kills me because THIS is the language that the center right actually is reacting to. Like even with the actual "woke" words half the objection is that the act of correcting people on language comes off condescending, not that dems are insufficiently bigoted.
I’d like them to ban the word distraction. None of this is a distraction, it’s the onset and implementation of authoritarianism.
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They can't stand the fact that Mamdani is lapping them even though he didn't pay a fortune to consultants to make him seem normal and friendly, because he is
Yep, and unfortunately the opportunity is now lost. So much for "kitchen table...."
They famously loved Walz' straight talking as I recall.
Emmm not plainly like that. We also need to agree with every word you say. In fact, you must be just like us too.
I vote for Democrats and I want to hear these words more. And when they shy away from them, I think they are cowards at the very least.
