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Yavin4

(36,210 posts) Sat Nov 9, 2024, 10:49 PM Saturday

Maybe FDR should've reached out to Hitler, Mussolini, and Hirohito.

You know scolding them didn't seem to win them over.

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Maybe FDR should've reached out to Hitler, Mussolini, and Hirohito. (Original Post) Yavin4 Saturday OP

Scolding Trump and his supporters isn't going to win them over. TwilightZone Saturday #1

NOTHING WILL WIN THEM OVER!!!!! Yavin4 Saturday #2

He did reach out to Stalin however MichMan Saturday #3

And why didn't moondust Sunday #4

TwilightZone

(28,833 posts)

1. Scolding Trump and his supporters isn't going to win them over.

Reply to Yavin4 (Original post)

Sat Nov 9, 2024, 11:00 PM

Saturday

They just double-down. Not really sure what your point is.

Unless we get over our hyper-obsession with Trump, we'll get nowhere. We need to figure out how to appeal to the Biden voters that Harris lost. She pretty clearly was unable to put together a similar coalition -- a significant factor in why we lost. That shouldn't require trying to appeal to voters who are permanently lost, just those open to the message that Biden was sending in 2020.

Voters want to vote *for* someone and not just against someone else. I'm not sure why that seems so difficult for some to comprehend, but there are some who continue to insist that our focus should be 100% on Trump. Sure, if we want to keep losing.