Want to win? Do this:
* Get every corporate Democrat the hell out of the party and be the party of the working and middle classes in grassroots America.
Ditch half your party's leadership and a large % of members? Good thinking! Go for it!
* SHOW UP in all 50 states and all AREAS of them.
Ummmm, I'm pretty sure the D Party is in every state, with headquarters in most counties or regions of each state.
* Send the money to state and local party entities not to consultants and pollsters.
Get rid of key strategic and tactical people? Good thinking! Go for it!
* Clean the ENTIRE house at the DNC and put in populist progressives.
Ditch half your party's leadership? Good thinking! Go for it!
* LISTEN to rural and small town folks and UNDERSTAND THEM! They are HURTING and want to be listened to and they want an economic future. We CAN create jobs there. SAY IT AND DO IT!
Would that be the same "rural and small town folks" whose lands you've been stealing and who your Enviro-folk have been raping?
* Respect the rural culture as well as the urban culture.
Well, ceasing to call them racists, rednecks, and uneducated would be a tiny start, but I don't think you all could withstand the blow to your worldview and the culture shock.
* ... (In politics you need an overarching narrative, values message, and VILLAIN TO ATTACK. (sic) ...
It may be a bit difficult to shift the attention of your current long-term "narrative"-"VILLAINs" to new villains and narratives. They might recognize the tactic and fail to see that it's in their "economic best interest".
* Tell older folks it will be a cold day in hell before we privatize social security and medicare.
That
Ponzi-Scheme lock-box full of government IOUs it gets to keep you. And that crappy "healthcare" program that doctors are fleeing, you get to keep that, too.
* Say loud and clear that America is Of, By, and For ALL THE PEOPLE and not just the rich, and our mission in life is to give the country back to ALL the people again. "MAKE AMERICA EVERYONE'S AGAIN!!"
And Progs are going to do this by demonizing the most productive segment of US citizenry and force on them a choice between being raped economically or fleeing the US?
Brilliant!* Unite urban and rural folks around the populist economics message bridging social justice with economic justice. People of all races and genders can not advance without economic justice. BRIDGE THE TWO!
I think most rural and small town folk understand that "social justice" and "economic justice" means government-stealing from productive people and giving the stolen wealth to people who refuse to be productive or otherwise contribute to society. They will unite - those rural and small town folk - to get you and your ideas out of power and out of their lives!