Hakeem Jeffries outlined three strategies for fighting back on Velshi this morning

[senseandsensibility]

He said we are going to need nationwide judicial reform, nationwide electoral reform, and we're going to need nationwide campaign finance reform after we retake the House
and he did not sound at all in doubt that we will.

Made me feel a little better, but I wish he was out there more. Hope he's on the Sunday shows tomorrow.

[FakeNoose]

1. Some of those things will require a constitutional amendment

So I hope he has a few short-term strategies to get us there.

[senseandsensibility]

2. Good point

But at least he's addressing it. And although it may sound superficial sounding strong and decisive is very important in this moment. If nothing else, it will keep the Dem base energized, which has been a strength of ours these past few months.

[JBTaurus83]

3. These are not things that can be done with

Simple majorities or with a GOP president. We also still have the court to reliably invalidate all laws that Dems pass. I’m glad he’s hopeful though, and I hope he has some good ideas.

[JI7]

4. We need the Supreme Court or Huge Majority in Congress

which is unlikely.

We can try to focus more on local and state level elections also.

In the end it's just about getting votes and winning elections. Winning elections isn't just about what we can pass but about preventing the other side from passing their things.

[NJCher]

5. did his strategies include

what needs to be done with social media? A new study has just come out and I posted about it:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221229545

Social media--TikTok, Meta, and Google/YouTube are gaming the system for Republicans. The article I posted by Thom Hartman tells about it. The article appeared last Thursday in Science.

Link to my post.

[Scrivener7]

7. Social media is the only media we can compete in, which is OK because the

influence of legacy media, where repubicans have had a stranglehold, is dwindling. But we aren't taking advantage of this. Obama dominated it, but since then repubicans have far surpassed us.

We need bot farms and "influencers" to compete with their bot farms and bot influencers. People say this is dishonest but it absolutely doesn't need to be. Where they use it to lie, we can use it to tell the truth.

We have always wondered how they present completely unified messages within minutes of something happening. We learned last week that it's nothing magic. It's just text chains. We need text chains to combat their text chains and get our unified message into social media. Then we need to steal repubicans' methods and use them to spread our messages.

Social media is the key, and we better turn it soon, or we'll lose that media market like we have all the others.

[Cha]

6. TY & Leader Hakeem Jeffries!

[Scrivener7]

8. We all know we're going to need these things. Did he say how we're going to get them?

Because the "how" is the strategy. A list is just a list.

[themaguffin]

9. He and a Dem majority need to be bold and aggressive no doubt.