 The Democratic Party just can't quit Donald Trump and going into the midterms the DCCC chair Sean Maloney is saying Yeah, it's actually really important that we hyper-focus on Donald Trump because electorally that's still really beneficial Except we just tried this out very recently Terry McAuliffe practically ran a campaign on Orange Man bad and he lost They literally sent out mailers in Virginia tying Glenn Yankin to Donald Trump and that Didn't work. They lost So why would they continue? What is obviously a losing strategy? Well, because they don't think it's a losing strategy They genuinely believe that somebody who politically has no power currently should be their main focus as opposed to anything else a Single policy as Max Greenwood of the Hill reports in an interview with the New York Times Representative Sean Patrick Maloney the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Contested the notion that Trump had lost his potency as a talking point for Democrats arguing that Virginia Governor Elect Glenn Yankin made a concerted effort throughout his campaign to distance himself from the former president That in itself He said was proof that Trump is still a tremendous liability for Republicans even when he's not on the ballot himself Glenn Yankin ran like a teenaged girl in a slasher movie away from Donald Trump. Maloney told the Times They're making fun of him on Saturday night live for how much he tried to run away from Donald Trump for some Democrats Yankin's victory underscored the limits of their Trump-centric strategy prompting them to urge the party to focus more on policy issues and legislative Accomplishments in 2022 when their razor-thin house and Senate majorities will be on the line Maloney acknowledged that his party's losses in Virginia and other states last week ought to be a wake-up call That we're not getting the job done on messaging But he also argued that the situation is more complicated than simply saying that an anti-Trump message is no longer effective The competitive congressional districts are in largely suburban swing areas and in those areas Glenn Yankin underperformed Mitt Romney He said referring to the US senator and 2021 GOP presidential nominee I think it's more complicated than people are saying Trump's toxicity continues to be a tremendous liability with suburban swing voters And therein lies another issue with their strategizing They're going after suburban swing voters rather than trying to mobilize their own base I mean Democrats like Barack Obama will complain about how you know, the voters just frequently They don't they don't show up young people don't show up because you know You're disappointed and you don't think that the last politician in office made enough progress But you've got to show up except maybe they'd show up if you gave them a reason to show up I mean look at the way that the negotiations Took place with regard to bipartisan infrastructure and build back better progressives got basically marginalized and They got no say And you expect young people to be excited about that. No idiot You don't need swing voters in suburban areas if you get out your base. You have this gigantic unawakened Political behemoth in Millennials and Gen Z years and you're just completely Not trying to win them over at all like there's there's no effort being made there Instead you want to go after suburban swing voters They are so clueless and this is the head of the D triple C saying this and to make matters worse It's not like Sean Maloney is the worst of the worst when it comes to the D triple C heads There's been a lot of really bad D triple C heads Sherry Bustos was one of them and Sean Maloney is better on a number of Areas but having said that though strategically Democrats just they don't know what they need to do They think that just hyper-focusing on Donald Trump is going to be the ticket No, I will grant them that yes, Trump does have a lot of sway Over the Republican Party still but the evidence that you should still focus on Donald Trump is that Glenn Yonkin Was running away from Donald Trump and they did a skit on SNL About how he was running away from Donald Trump. Who cares what SNL says? I mean, this is the most boomer out of touch shit. I've heard But this is par for the course Democratic Party operatives are like the biggest scam artists in the country and they still continue to give the Democratic Party horrible advice against common sense and They still get paid millions of dollars every single year. So let me tell you How wonderful that? Anti-trump strategy was for Terry McAuliffe Let me put it into perspective for you because he talked about Donald Trump so much that it became a meme and guess what Glenn Yonkin Made an ad about that. So, you know, you hear about how oh well Glenn Yonkin was really afraid to be you know equated with Donald or compared to Donald Trump rather and they even made skits about him on SNL But Glenn Yonkin ran a much more effective campaign when it comes to messaging because he took their anti-trump message And he used it against them to make it seem as if Terry McAuliffe had no policy substance. 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So you can expect that in 2022 when Democrats inevitably run the same failed strategies. And it's not just that they're wrong to think that hyper-focusing on Trump instead of policies is a good electoral strategy. The Democratic Party operatives in numerous articles after the Virginia loss, they're saying that, well, you know, this is very clearly a rejection of the far left policies, except how is this a rejection of the far left, the quote, far left, when we have a moderate president and moderate senators dictating all of the party's agenda? It just, it's honestly, it feels like they're being purposefully obtuse. Like they want to lose because that's just easier. You know, being in a position of power, there's a lot of pressure. There's this expectation that you deliver for your constituents, but I think it's much more easy to just remain out of power and fundraise off of Donald Trump when there's no expectation that you deliver. So I mean, I don't know what it is, but that's what we're going to see if Democrats continue with this failed strategy and they're not helping themselves. I mean, if they were going to brag and, you know, give young voters, for example, who they need to mobilize to win a reason to get on vote, they can do the bare minimum. Joe Biden can cancel student debt via executive order. He can legalize marijuana, but they're not doing it. They passed their bipartisan, so-called bipartisan infrastructure bill, and they're trying to brag about that when it is woefully inadequate as it relates to climate change. It is actually a net negative when it comes to the climate change emission or the CO2 emissions that we're producing. And who knows if we're even going to see them pass, build back better. And if it is something that's passed, then you can, you know, guarantee it's going to be worse than it is now. So it's just, it's frustrating. And I can't not logically deduce that they're not this stupid. They're not this dumb. They're not that dense. There's no way. I refuse to believe that. I think that they want to lose to an extent. Maybe some Democrats want to win, but a lot of them would be happy if they kept their seat but lost the majority because, hey, then we could just sit back and send out a thousand emails to our constituents about how Donald Trump said this. And then he said that. And there's zero expectation that we deliver for our constituents. That's genuinely what I believe is the case with a lot of Democrats. I don't know the proportion. Maybe it's 50 percent, maybe it's 40 percent, but a lot of Democrats, they prefer to not be in power because they just want to be comfortable. They just want to hang on to the seat. And right now they see that there's a lot of momentum for climate change action. There's a lot of momentum to expand Medicare and that makes them feel uncomfortable because then they have to go against their corporate donors. They don't want that. So instead, they're just, they're coming up with this just insane strategy to hyper focus on somebody who's no longer president. Sure he may run again, but he's not the president right now. He's not going to be the president in 2022. So for them to hyper focus on Donald Trump, they're intentionally doing something that is a losing strategy. And I just, I feel like more people need to point that out. It's absurd to me, honestly.