Elections: Advice to Democrats (Communications Part 1)
January 25, 2025
In the previous post, I shared a news item highlighting comments from now US Senator Elissa Slotkin:
“Where’s our Project 2025? How come we’re constantly reacting to them? Where’s our plans? … What are we going to do? Where are our court cases? Where are our state laws? What’s our 50-state plan?”
That gap in long-term agenda setting is most clear in the reactions to restrictions on reproductive healthcare after Roe v. Wade was overturned, Slotkin said.
“For two years after Roe was overturned, does anyone know what the five-year plan is to get back to a federal right to abortion? They had 50 years to get rid of it,” Slotkin said. “They have a 50-year plan. What’s our five-year plan? Or even a 10-year plan?”[1]
That was a brilliant question! And since it appears that no one else has attempted to answer it, I’ve elected to sketch out some ideas in this and future posts. Again, this is LONG post so you’ll need to read it in PDF format (which, of course, makes it easy to share).
