Ibram Kendi: "...We need evidence that progressives hurt down ballot democrats..." on MJ

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29. There is polling evidence...but you all don't want it to be true so you won't accept it which is

fine. But please don't use the phrase 'defund the police again'. I googled 'defund the police', there were hundreds of articles, ads about this and about socialism and also single payer...Biden was immune to being called a socialist and had made it very clear, he did not favor defunding the police or single payer. Thus he did substantially better than down ballot who were hurt by 'defund the police' and socialism rhetoric. We need to take seats in red and purple districts in order to have majorities...that is the bottom line. But look at the ACA. It is more popular than ever. Once we get some stuff done like a $15.00 minimum which we all agree on and other proposals which can be deemed moderate we will move the country left and more policies will become acceptable. But you have to win majorities in order to do this. Below are two examples of what I am talking about there are many more as well as polling...we have to use our political instincts in order to win and I suggest a 50 state strategy and a big tent is the only way. When the big tent existed we held Congress for decades.

"House Majority Whip James Clyburn criticized calls to "defund the police" during several media appearances on Sunday, saying that the phrase hurt Democratic congressional candidates and could potentially derail the Black Lives Matter movement.

Clyburn said on CNN's "State of the Union" that he'd spoken with the late Rep. John Lewis about the phrase this summer, the two concluding "that it had the possibilities of doing to the Black Lives Matter movement and current movements across the country what 'Burn, baby, burn' did to us back in 1960."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/11/08/james-clyburn-defund-police-cost-democrats-seats-hurt-black-lives-matter/6216371002/

"The ad had all the trappings of a left-wing boogeyman fever dream: “He’d defund the police, end Medicare, force you into socialized medicine, double your gas prices with a Green New Deal. Cameron Webb: way too radical.”

The rhetoric, deployed against a Virginia Democratic candidate for a U.S. House seat, is exactly what Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) was talking about last week when she told her colleagues they needed to avoid using language that became fodder for Republican attacks."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/webb-spanberger-defund-attacks/2020/11/11/9afd6408-2426-11eb-952e-0c475972cfc0_story.html