2026

[wtg]

Will the passage of the megabill help Dems?

https://www.npr.org/2025/07/05/nx-s1-5455928/trump-megabill-democrats-house-win-midterms

[CHAS]

Hope there will be a midterm election.

[AdagioM]

They need to work on their messaging.

[Mik]

Scary Medicaid cuts won’t do it. The party continues down the same path that gave Trump a way back.

[Bernard]

They absolutely have to work on their messaging. Why is it most people think working age adults on medicaid are unemployed--including half of Democrats!? WTF? Why is it most people think that immigrants not here legally can get medicaid!?

For some reason, the party has been incapable of reaching through to people. Part of the problem is that republicans are so very good at lying and the Fox megaphone is at their disposal. But Democrats need to figure out how to combat that, if it's even possible. Sometimes I have my doubts. It seems to be in the nature of reason and intelligence to be viewed as elitist by the perpetually, if not permanently, aggrieved. Democrats need to find a way to surmount this obstacle. If it's even possible.

Now is definitely the time for the party to become very visible and very vocal, hitting hard every time a new bad news story comes out--and there will be a lot of them.