A 50 state strategy requires a big tent

[nikibatts]

12. Open our big tent, get rid of as many GOPers as we can first, then deal with Blue dogs and others

once we are in power.

To say that we Dems did not try to appeal to the red state Dems is not true. Hillary did and was ignored not only by the media but by our own voters. They just didn't want to hear it from her after hearing so much about her (faux) ties to Goldman-Sachs her transcripts, her links to her own family Foundation, her being part of the "establishment", the "rigged system." We couldn't hear her for the screaming in our own ears about free college, universal health care, e-mails, and even at one point screaming about her being unqualified. She sanctioned the most progressive platform of any Dem since FDR. BUT..you know he history.

We cannot afford to make the same mistakes this time... in 2018 oe 2020. We cannot and should not over-promise and we need to tell people what they need to hear, not what they want to hear, but in a way that offers them hope and challenge instead of dread and fear.