I think sometimes, as Democrats, we get stuck in our own liberal bubble

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56. Persuadable swing voters were deceived

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There are a lot of people who don’t follow traditional news but are on social media and voted despite being uninformed. Our news ecosystem is broken and that’s part of the problem.

I think Dems also had trouble counteracting the other side because, among other things, they made a textbook mistake. Read Geoffrey Nunberg’s “Talking Right.”* You can’t repeat your opponent’s points and then argue against them; that just reinforces your opponent’s points. That doesn’t mean the truth stands no chance, but one has to use winning communication strategies.

I don’t think the answer is stifling individual humans’ speech, but billionaires’ super PACs and dark money are poisoning our civic culture and you saw that in the number of misinformed voters in this election.

(*Edited because I mixed up Nunberg’s book with George Lakoff’s “Don’t Think of an Elephant.” But that’s worth reading too. The Nunberg book shows that the project to redirect populist anger from economic elites to cultural elites has been a long-term one.)