We Should Learn a Lesson – Part I

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We should learn a valuable lesson from a Democrat who recently learned a lesson. Long-time Dem billionaire does an about-face on Trump, admits the left has been blinded by TDS.

Democrat billionaire Chamath Palihapitiya, who voted for Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden, admits that he now appreciates what former President Donald Trump accomplished during his time in the White House. “What those guys did was pretty incredible,” Palihapitiya noted.


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He also said that Trump Derangement Syndrome caused more damage than Trump ever did because it caused people to not see his good work. “So much of the work that happened in that administration turned out to have been right, and that is what is so frustrating for me.”

“The work on the border wall, we didn’t like the messenger, so, we killed the message. Turned out it was right,” Palihapitiya noted. “Issuing long-term debt to refinance when rates were at zero. We didn’t like the messenger, so we killed the message. A structural peace deal in the Middle East. We didn’t like the messenger, so we killed the message. When are we going to stop shooting ourselves in the foot? When are we going to actually take the time to look past who was saying things and actually listen to them word for word?”

The lesson for us is not just that Trump accomplished many good things. Many of us already knew that.<

A larger lesson is that the Message matters much more than the Messenger. Or to put it another way, Policy matters much more than Personality.
We should campaign on the basis of Policies, not Personalities. Our policies are better than the Democrats’ – our policies produce better results for the people.
We should work to persuade people to choose which policies will make their lives better and to then vote for the candidate who espouses the better policies.
One Democrat changed his mind all on his own by thinking about policy. Imagine how many more Democrats would change their minds if we worked to persuade them to think about Policies, not Personalities.
Part II will have more thoughts about campaign strategy emphasizing Policies, not Personalities.

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