Why Do Democrats Suck at Messaging?

In my many years working in politics, I have attended hundreds, if not thousands, of fundraising events. A fundraising trip is a tour of the twin plagues of economic inequality and money in politics. These events are held at huge brownstones on the Upper East Side, giant tech-funded mansions in Silicon Valley, ancestral estates in the Berkshires, and homes overlooking the ocean in Malibu and the Hamptons. Each of these venues would be worthy of its own episode of Million Dollar Listing. However, I rarely toured these totems to wealth (inherited and “earned”). At these hoity-toity events in people’s homes,… Read Full Article