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Emboldened Democrats dig in on health care demands in shutdown fight (www.nbcnews.com)

submitted 5 months ago by gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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Eight days into the government shutdown, Senate Democratic communications directors received a private briefing and a memo from pollster Geoff Garin.

The crux of the message: Stay the course because Democrats are winning the battle of public opinion.

“Voters continue to blame Trump and Republicans more than Democrats for the shutdown,” said the memo, which was obtained by NBC News and featured new polling data conducted by Hart Research, with findings that are backed by other public national surveys on the shutdown fight.

It added that voters are siding with Democrats’ health care funding demands, that Republicans are starting to "feel the heat” on the issue and that the GOP’s political pain will worsen “the longer and more aggressively” Democrats litigate it.

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[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

now they are fighting

That's the important part. Gotta start somewhere.

Inept on purpose

Really hard to say that definitively because determining why people do things is always a matter of speculation, but the way this is playing out definitely underscores how inept backing down on the last time the government nearly shutdown this spring was.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca -1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

No. I'm sure you're a nice, well meaning person, but this take is ridiculous.

Let's say the D's fight reawy reawy hawrd and get a healthcare provision put in the next bill. Yay! Small victory right? Except you weren't fighting the existential fight of preventing a fascist dictatorship from installing itself. Once the dictatorship is fully installed and in control, the healthcare provisions mean NOTHING. The D's existence means nothing. Voting no longer exists. It a classic 'win the battle and lose the war' that the Dems have excelled at for 30 years as a fully captured opposition.

You can't seem to see this and that is why you are fucked. Any real opposition should be planning for civil war.