A Few Thoughts on Messages and Morale

Over the last few days, as I’ve struggled with everyone else to stay on top of all this, I’ve tried to balance two things. One of those is trying to keep people focused on what an opposition can actually do and what it can’t. The other is that you can’t simply be, in effect, yelling at people who are bewildered and scared. I saw a DNC member who was at that cattle call Thursday saying how weird it was hearing elected officials talking like these were normal times when actually the house is burning down around everyone. So how to reconcile primal screams and concrete plans and in the midst of that trying to make some progress on thinking outside the box, how to counteract and defeat performative displays of powerlessness.