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Mike Johnson's avatar

Really good piece.

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Michael Galpin's avatar

Hmm, while winning over swing voters might be what you were hoping their book was about, I don't think that's what it is actually about.

Nonetheless, one has to wonder why would swing voters trust Democrats to govern their nation given how poorly they are governing states that they perennially control like California and New York. Further the same tendencies that have hobbled CA and NY unsurprisingly reared their ugly heads during Biden's administration, preventing solar farms and electric vehicle charging infrastructure from being built in Democratic states. Indeed it was red states that are far less "anti-abundance" that benefited disproportionately from Biden's policies.

As for the swing voter issues that are called out here, they would definitely be quite relevant in a book about winning over swing voters in 2028. Still you have to wonder just how convincing these issues would be. Democratic candidates could absolutely point to states like California and New York as proof of higher minimum wages, expanded Medicaid, and subsidized child care programs. Democrats would just have to hope that those swing voters didn't notice that many of those Californians who received said benefits were living in RVs because they can't afford an apartment.

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