Chasing Opinion Polls or Shaping Opinions?

from Half the Answer · host Liberal Currents

Trent and Caitlin talk with communications strategist Lexi Koren about the Democratic Party obsession with blaming wokeness and “the groups.” Should they be listened to? Why not? What should Democrats do instead?Resources:The Rhetoric of Reaction https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674768680 Bill Maher on Pod Save America https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEKyn9NL46UTrans rights as “hard to defend” https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/11/transgender-rights-election-public-opinon/680813/NYT on immigration https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/06/us/politics/democrats-immigration-trump.htmlThird Way on immigration https://www.thirdway.org/memo/running-on-immigration-the-gallego-blueprint Briahna Joy Gray: Not the hill to die on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyIqL2Jh8xk