I agree with you entire assessment, except one thing needs to be added. The Democrats must get

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out on the airwaves, social media, and ads explaining in clear language what is happening, and exactly what the republicans are doing, denying subsidies to the ACA so people lose their coverage, which means losing their healthcare, and stealing funding allocated to Medicaid.

It needs to be agressive, frequent, and scare the heck out of people that millions will lose their coverage.

It has to have the impact of the "Daisy commercial", which Goldwater lost against, except the stakes this time are that millions will lose their healthcare coverage.