I've been a professional issue advocate for a long time but I've learned only a few hard rules.
One goes something like this:
"Insulting real people whose support you want to get or keep is a losing strategy, employed by desperate losers."
Listening to fears, offering hope and help, and building common ground always works better.
Some Dem partisans are really great at that. Legendary even. Like Joe Biden, for instance.
But many are far less good. They do untold damage.
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