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   Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 06-Aug-2026 20:22:50 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

   For years, the Democratic Party has concentrated it's messaging on only one thing: stopping Donald Trump. It is an exhausting, anxiety-inducing rearguard effort that hands over power and momentum to white nationalists.

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     Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 06-Aug-2026 20:31:35 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

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     The best speech for me by a mainstream Democratic candidate during this period was Joe Biden's acceptance speech for the 2020 presidential candidate nomination. He didn't concentrate on Donald Trump; instead, he promised to address four important crises: the pandemic, the economy, racial injustice, and climate change.

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     Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 06-Aug-2026 20:34:04 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

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     "Stop Donald Trump" is a mission that doesn't win at the polls, most of the time. And when it does win, it results in gridlock for governance. There's no mandate to do anything; just a mandate to stop someone else from doing something.

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     Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 06-Aug-2026 20:37:22 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

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     If the Biden Administration's only mission was to stop Trump, they failed.

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     Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 06-Aug-2026 20:37:51 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

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     The DSA and the progressive wing of the Democratic Party have fought hard to tell a different story, and earn a mandate to make change. It has worked sometimes; sometimes it hasn't.

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     Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 06-Aug-2026 20:39:14 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

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     I think the strategy is powerful and meaningful. I hope it continues.

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     Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 06-Aug-2026 20:42:24 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

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     Progressives and democratic socialists should keep moving their positive and proactive story forward. It works.

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     Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 06-Aug-2026 20:42:25 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

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     • Robert Reich

     It is disappointing to see @rbreich try to turn that message back to the worn-out Stop Trump drumbeat.

     https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/06/abdul-el-sayed-michigan-victory

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     Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 06-Aug-2026 20:43:39 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

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     https://www.pbs.org/video/joe-bidens-full-speech-dnc-night-4-bmvbbe/

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     Jean-François Mezei (jfmezei@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 06-Aug-2026 20:44:52 JST Jean-François Mezei

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     @evan « DSA » and « radical left » and « socialist » and script plots by MAGA to discredit every democrat party policy whether to left or right. Progressives need to fight these labels and show their policies would be good for USA abandonned are not radical.

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     M. Grégoire (mpjgregoire@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 06-Aug-2026 22:27:16 JST M. Grégoire

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     @evan Yes. Many Americans hate Pres. Trump; Ds probably raise more money and win primaries by attacking him. But it's an insufficient message to win elections, since many Americans think he's not so bad.

     #uspol

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     Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Friday, 07-Aug-2026 02:38:44 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

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     The stop-Trump faction need to clearly own what went wrong between Jan 2021 and Nov 2024 such that Donald Trump was reëlected, and they need to state clearly what they will do differently if given the reins of power again.

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     Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Friday, 07-Aug-2026 09:32:56 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

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     He did a good job on these, by the way.