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Went back and was looking at my first post after the election. It had this passage:

While I am going to go slow, listen, and take my time I do have a few initial thoughts this morning about where we are now and where we are going, together……

Over the past few years we, our country, our leaders, Merrick Garland, the Harris SuperPAC and many, many others failed to adequately indict Trump and explain what an unprecedented threat he was. A rapist, fraudster, traitor and 34 times felon was just elected President. The relentless normalization of his extremism, madness and ugliness, the legacy media’s complicit in reporting on the race not the stakes, was a collective failure of enormous consequence.

Related to point one, I still think many on our side and in the establishment simply do not understand the nature of the conflict America finds itself in today. Trump and his global allies are playing a different game than we are used to. They have invented a whole new deeply illiberal game with all sorts of new pieces and rules. We have been slow, dangerously and recklessly, slow in recognizing how the rules of the game have changed.

It’s why whatever happens next, it is time for the Democratic Party’s generational wheel to turn and for new leaders who are not steeped in and hobbled by old ways to take the helm. We are facing a new battlefield, and more contemporary strategies, tactics, alliances and leaders are required in this next stage of the fight. Now is a time for re-invention, re-imagination, and risk-taking. We need to build a new politics for the American center-left, a more modern one, one more suited to the opportunities and challenges in front of us, a more “networked” one as my friend Joe Trippi would say.

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PEOPLE’s TOWN HALLS in ALL 50 STATES

Great to see Ken Martin stepping up to the challenge! This is a clear sign that he’ll be a great catalyst for much-needed change in the Democratic Party.

His "People’s Town Halls in all 50" states are a brilliant way to enliven, enlist and activate our base, as well as to win more hearts and minds. (That’s how you kick-start a re-energized "50 State Strategy"!)

These town halls are likely to generate lots of good media coverage, especially at the local and state levels where it really matters.

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