Kamala Harris Tweet on Dick Cheney

It's time for Democrats to distance themselves from the ACA and be all-in on Medicare for All

We're already subsidizing the administrative costs of the middle men in health care and insurance company profits. Might as well cut them out and just subsidize health care instead. If there was a "free market" solution to make health care affordable Republicans would've found it already.

And when Republicans say "b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-but Canada!" just remind them they have some issues but they're only one of the few developed countries that figured out long ago for-profit health care doesn't control costs we're the only developed country that pretends that they do. Even the conservative Mercatus Center has found that Medicare for all will save us money.

It would also be good marketing for Democrats. Democrats need aggressive marketing to be the party of working people and not liberal upper middle class suburban moms.

It's time for Democrats to stop being afraid of being called "socialist"

The aughts are over. Republicans have gone from saying "get big government off our backs" to talking about overthrowing the "woke oligarchy" and "sticking it to the Wall Street elites" and the treasury secretary is talking about how Trump is for main street and no Wall Street. I see this type of language on Facebook and the Charlie Kirk show (had to listen to that while taking my dad to an out-of-town for a doctor's appointment). If Democrats said some of this stuff 20 years ago they'd be called Marxists.

And I know some will say "people should be able to see through this" but it's not that simple. You can't expect people who aren't political junkies to know everything you know about politics, especially in an environment where the legacy media is more interesting in calling an equal number of fouls for team Republican and team Democrat instead of just going by the rules.

Remember that 3 states (Nevada, Wisconsin, and Michigan) that voted for Trump also sent Democratic women to the senate while some want to put all the blame on sexism. I think it's delusional to not pretend like *some* Trump voters voted for him based on the economy and not some white or male identitarian grievance. These are the types of voters that can be won back by leaning in hard on economic populism.

Will Trump fire the people at the BEA?

I see we're forecasting GDP shrinkage over 2% for the first quarter. I don't think think Trump will like that.

We can't play by the rules when fighting people who have no regard for rules

All the most consequential presidents in history (like Lincoln and FDR) were "rogues" who didn't always play by the rules of normal governance. Now instead of a president trying to keep the union together or get out of the depression, we have a bunch of people who never grew out of their teenage libertarian phases who have declared war on all Americans.

I'm worried we have a Democratic party that's not up to this challenge. You're up against president that's very vulnerable to flattery and has the brain of a middle school boy and the richest man in the world that's nowhere close to as brilliant as he thinks he is. These guys are NOT invincible at all.

Take the gloves off.
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