At donor retreats and in pitch documents seen by The New York Times, liberal strategists are pushing the party’s rich backers to reopen their wallets for a cavalcade of projects to help Democrats, as the cliché now goes, “find the next Joe Rogan.”
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The first out of the gate has been Chorus, a well-publicized liberal nonprofit group co-founded by the Democratic influencer Brian Tyler Cohen.
But others have stayed under wraps until now. In November, Ms. McBride and other liberal operatives gathered in Washington for a series of meetings to survey the election wreckage. At the headquarters of American Bridge, one of the largest Democratic donor networks, they eventually hatched a plan for a for-profit media company called AND Media, which stands for “Achieve Narrative Dominance.”
The company, incorporated in March, says it is aiming to raise $45 million over the next four years. The group hopes to have a $70 million budget over that time frame based on predictions of $25 million in revenue. It says it has raised $7 million so far. Ms. McBride and Christian Tom, who led digital strategy for the Biden White House, have pitched the company to American Bridge donors as a broad cultural project.
It also doesn’t help that the dems don’t have any sort of coherent message beyond “We aren’t those guys.” They struggle to stay relevant because their entire thing is being “republican lite” and no one wants that or likes that.
For me this is the pink elephant in the room. How could you appeal to people when your philosophy, or lack thereof, is to be a ratchet for things that make life worse and concentrated wealth upwards? The discussion has nothing to do with how to make life better? No dosing rod for the sentiment of the people you intend to serve? Maybe if you were responding to some societal, cultural desire like Trump did somebody could tap into that and metabolize it for people, becoming popular in the process. Plenty of people did plenty of numbers after Trump noticed angry people and it got metabolized into rants about how Liberals want to steal your penis. You’re not my manager; you’re auditioning for the role of my servant. If you don’t know what I want you’re going to have a hell of a time finding someone who resonates with me.