Yes, the Democratic party is terrible at avoiding dumb issue traps that are unpopular. But the public dissemination of these positions is very conservative med

Yes, 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.