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There's two points here: 1. Most US media (especially radio) being conservative allowed Republicans to define Democrats in their terms. Consequently, the "Demo
by ethbr1 2y ago
There's two points here:
1. Most US media (especially radio) being conservative allowed Republicans to define Democrats in their terms. Consequently, the "Democrats are all trans rights and DEI" was a Republican choice.
2. The Democrats certainly didn't make it hard for (1) to happen.
- nine_k 2y agoLook, this is not some Fox News, this is The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/02/dnc-meeting/681548/?gift=Exty0c37iBapZfMrmNPU4u9msMLlxJnki6C-z_1nvTQ https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/02/dnc-mee... I'm no Trump fan, but losing to Trump required some serious efforts :-(
- ethbr1 2y agoYes, the Democratic party is terrible at avoiding dumb issue traps that are unpopular. But the public dissemination of these positions is very conservative media driven. Counterfactual: if progressive media had been as dominant as conservative media is, everyone would have spent the last 4 years hearing about government infrastructure spending and Project 2025. In reality, you instead heard a relentless drumbeat of easily attackable Democratic positions, with nary a peep about Republican extremes. So, yes, Democrat fault for having those positions in the first place. But the de facto situation is mostly created by conservative-dominated media being able to repeatedly broadcast those to an uninformed public.