"All Democrats care about are pronouns" [View all]

[brooklynite]

I attended last week's DNC meeting (as a guest of Leadership). While sitting in on a meeting of the Rural Issues Council, a DNC member from Kansas was complaining that, when he travelled outside of metro Kansas City to talk to voters (who are NOT all Trump supporters), the reaction was frequently "All Democrats care about are pronouns", e.g. they're always talking about identity politics/social justice issues that resonate in the big city, but nothing that small town America can relate to (needs of small businesses, gas prices, education, etc.)

I raised a counter-point, which is that too many metropolitan Democrats (including folks here) continually say that appealing to rural voters is hopeless (because they're all seen as Trumpist Bible-Thumpers); and we won't be successful by occasionally winning narrow statewide contests against uniquely unpopular Republicans (think Laura Kelly vs. Kris Kobach); we have to be able to claw back legislative seats in rural counties to prevent (or at least curtail) the damaging legislation they're currently passing. And to do that, we have to find a way to talk to rural voters.

I'll be meeting with Jaime Harrison and Leadership against next week, and plan to bring up messaging as an area the Party needs to work on.