In 2012, I was a Republican consultant frustrated that our candidate's preferred message about the economy didn't get through to the public.
With a friend, I wrote an essay calling on Republicans to start up many new media platforms.
They did it. Our advice worked overwhelmingly.
I switched sides 3 years later. My prescription remains the same: media investment is the only path to public persuasion.
Here's the old essay https://spectator.org/there-we-went-again/