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This assumes you can endlessly exploit the public trust forever. Arguably, the last election should have put to lie that assumption. I loathe to see your reply that the Democrats just need to lie better, as opposed to artlessly denying everything with shameless compulsive lies (Kamala was never border tsar!). The problem being, there are no more artful lies to be told. You cannot lie better when you are caught red handed in the act, which is where the Democrats routine denial of reality has landed them.
I find their lack of interest in running on issues to be telling. They don’t really seem to think their ideas have the potential to be winning issues for them. They just don’t seem interested in saying what they want and have used the same playbook for decades. Most of their campaign seems to be calling republicans various forms of evil and telling us they’ll prevent republicans from doing bad things. They don’t care to talk about their ideas and rarely have big plans they want to accomplish, and when they do, they’re often talking about how their ideas are “nonpartisan” or in the case of Obamacare, that the idea came from republicans.
My first advice to democrats is find a vision of a future you want to build that people would actually want to live in. And not only start talking about it, but start trying to actually build it.
Adam Curtis’ documentary Hypernormalisation is my recommendation to you: https://youtube.com/watch?v=to72IJzQT5k?si=zvQm4rUCploqAEtw
TL;DR: no such positive vision can exist any more, because there is simply nothing aspirational left inside democratic Western political philosophy that hasn’t already been tried and failed.
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What if the problem with that is the "and"? That is, what if the future Dem elites want to build is one the majority of the population wouldn't want?
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Not just Democrats, this is politics and we get the politicians we deserve. We vote for liars and the ruthless, so we get more liars. Nothing to do with Democrats vs Republicans.
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