By Robert Laurie ——Bio and Archives--June 21, 2017
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"I've been saying all along, if you need to do that, if it makes you feel good, then do that, but understand if you want to change America and you want to change the world, you're much better off going into districts campaigning for somebody - knocking on doors, handing them fliers, getting into phone banks, calling people, finding people, recruiting candidates - not that look just like you and think just like, but actually fit the district
...This is something Republicans decided to do years ago."If he stopped here, he'd have at least part of a point. Unfortunately, he continued, saying "Marching in the streets? Great pictures. Makes you look good. Does not win elections." This is where he loses it. The screaming, shouting, rioting, marching, and protesting may make the left-wing base happy, but it doesn't look good on TV. In fact, for most of this country, it looks like a bunch of spoiled-rotten social justice warriors throwing a hissy fit because they lost an election. The optics are terrible, and it will continue to hurt Democrats as long as it continues. As for going house to house, that's fine, but Mika wants to know what you'll be peddling when you ring that doorbell. Marches, she says, "are great" but...
"you're shouting in the street. You're chanting. You're singing with people who agree with you. So going out and knocking on doors as you talked about gets you listening - and we're seeing the same problem we've seen all along. The same problem we saw when we had [Deputy DNC chair Keith Ellison] on the show, who just seemed to be going off and spouting, ‘Come on man, we're good. We're going to be good.' No. What's the message? What is going to bring people in?"
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