Here's a thing I wrote 16 years ago (!) that contains a lesson Democrats have hopefully learned this time around: in politics, doing stuff only matters if people see you doing it
https://jasonlefkowitz.net/2010/09/the_tragedy_of_barack_obama/
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@jalefkowit I've heard the phrase "always-on marketing", and I think it is something Trump, despite his many egregious flaws, did well until the last 6-12 months. The right-wing influence machinery, from Fox News to individual influencers, has also been part of that always-on marketing.
Democrats often show up in the months before an election and try to tout what they have done or will do, but it is hard to overcome 22 months of always-on marketing with 2 months of advertising.
At this point the only reason I keep my old blog around is for "I told you so" purposes
@jalefkowit in fairness though: you did tell us so
@glyph For all the good it did 😆
@jalefkowit was there EVER any other reason??
(my WEBLOG decades ago, all the way from SoFla: omgweareallgonnadie blogspot )
@jalefkowit the thing that gets me is that all of those legislative bullet points they crowed about were swept away with the stroke of a sharpie