“The short-term strategy is, win the House of Representatives,” stated the former president, garnering applause. “Because that’s going to be the circuit breaker that will give us control of one major component of the federal government. With that as a bulwark, we’re now able to block some of the worst impulses that are coming out of this White House.”

The former president laid out a two-pronged strategy for Democrats: to reclaim a House majority next year, and to work on honing the party’s messaging in the coming years.

“Long term, let’s tell a story, a better story about who we are as Americans and what we share,” Obama said, according to excerpts shared with CBS News. “We have to tell the story that makes people who feel outside that process, we’ve got to bring them back in.”

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    16 hours ago

    They’ll say primaries are the time to disagree then vote blue no matter who in the general, but you see how they tried to sabotage Mamdani.

    Yes, but Mamdani did something that liberals are still scratching their heads on how to use to their advantage-- social media. The right managed to successfully exploit the new digital machinery to brainwash people. But the actual progressives and left are learning from their previous mistakes and using social media to gain attention and improve their messaging. It is gradually working as more and more progressives are getting elected on the local level.

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      15 hours ago

      Possibly, but I think the problem is more the message than the medium.

      Plenty of right-wingers have been radicalized by old-fashioned cable news.

      And the democrats haven’t struggled to get their message heard — they’re the less openly racist center-right party. But no one wants to vote for Diet Republicans™️.