One of the few times I've agreed with Sosik. The country has shown time and again in polls that they prefer someone moderately liberal on social issues and progressive on economics.
People didn't feel the effects due to post pandemic and Russian invasion's supply shocks. His other priorities like higher minimum wage, a public health insurance option and paid family leave were dead on arrival due to Manchin and Sinema.
People didn't know Biden was economically progressive, since he didn't have much rhetoric about it. Like it or not, rhetoric is just as important as actual actions in this case.
Biden also made Silent Cal seem like a braggart by comparison, at least during his Presidential term. You gotta sell it or else it's a tree falling in the forest.
The point is you can “sell” your views all you want. At the end of the day though voters have to care. They didn’t. They wanted to pretend COVID never happened and they wanted 2019 back.
There are socially conservative, hate Democrats like a team sport and Dan Osborn and Sherrod Brown did run far ahead of Harris. They are left wing on economics.
Moreover, I was talking about national politics and issue based polls.
‘A Prerequisite for Democrats to Come Back to Power’
Longtime Democratic strategist Doug Sosnik has some advice for the party — including to embrace the populist economics of Bernie Sanders and AOC.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/04/20/democrats-strategy-bernie-sanders-aoc-00299416
One of the few times I've agreed with Sosik. The country has shown time and again in polls that they prefer someone moderately liberal on social issues and progressive on economics.
Biden was the economically most progressive President since LBJ and it served him zero political dividends.
People didn't feel the effects due to post pandemic and Russian invasion's supply shocks. His other priorities like higher minimum wage, a public health insurance option and paid family leave were dead on arrival due to Manchin and Sinema.
People didn't know Biden was economically progressive, since he didn't have much rhetoric about it. Like it or not, rhetoric is just as important as actual actions in this case.
Biden also made Silent Cal seem like a braggart by comparison, at least during his Presidential term. You gotta sell it or else it's a tree falling in the forest.
Biden made speeches like this all around the country during his 4 years and the media simply didn't cover it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IpaiJsjntk
This isn't the 90s. You can't expect the media to come to you anymore. You have to go to them, aggressively and all the time.
The point is you can “sell” your views all you want. At the end of the day though voters have to care. They didn’t. They wanted to pretend COVID never happened and they wanted 2019 back.
If that’s the case why aren’t we seeing people “progressive on economics” winning in purple and red states?
There are socially conservative, hate Democrats like a team sport and Dan Osborn and Sherrod Brown did run far ahead of Harris. They are left wing on economics.
Moreover, I was talking about national politics and issue based polls.