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There’s nothing lower in punditry than pre-morteming an election, but I count on my ignorance here to shield me. I don’t know who will win or by how much any better than any other reader here so lest I dampen enthusiasm with the polls still open for hours more, don’t take my musings as predictive of the outcome.
But while I may not be Nate Silver, I can see that however this turns out, the Democratic Party has got a messaging problem reaching out to some broad swaths of the country (so, no doubt does the Republican party in its way, but for the purposes of our discussion here, they aren’t my problem). And one thing that could be helpful for the Democrats at this particularly fraught and perilous turn in our history, is their natural allies in the communications game here to help them reach out to the broad, non-college faculty/media employee public.
Unfortunately for the Democrats, it occurs to me, their friends here in Hollywood have just about the same problem reaching out to those same broad swaths. And so instead of finding ways together to communicate more directly, they are marching arm-in-arm into the same messaging cul de sac, that if they don’t find a way out of, speaking for the Hollywood end at least, there are some gloomy days ahead.
The Democratic Party suffers from a sclerotic institutional inertia that drags the Democratic Party down and got it out of the habit of making a case for itself, which is not too far from the general attitude in Hollywood — that the machinery will keep the people coming forever and the only dilemma is how to position oneself to put a bigger share of the proceeds in your own pocket.
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