POLITICS
Democrats Need To Get Offensive
After decades of playing perpetual defense, Democrats need to shift the momentum by going on offense
It’s often been said that the best defense is a good offense, and nowhere is that more true than in the bloodsport of national politics. When you are on the attack, your opponent is forced to spend time and energy defending their flanks. They’re too busy to respond in kind. Which, if you think about it, pretty much sums up how the partisan fight has been going for the past decade or so.
Republicans perpetually attack, throwing everything they can into the mix, while Democrats scramble to defend each broadside or ad hominem attack with empathy, logic, and reason, rarely understanding that no one is listening to their response. Everyone has already moved on to the latest attack because everyone likes a spectacle. You can’t win a war of ideas when your opponent has abandoned the rules of the game. You can’t make a rational case for good government when you’re being hit in the face with a firehose.
To paraphrase a line from A Knight’s Tale, “Stop letting them hit you!”
I was originally going to say that Democrats need a better offensive strategy, but that would imply that they had one in the first place. The…
