That filter reinforces all the worst impressions about politics. It’s particularly damaging for Democrats whose only path to victory depends on convincing nonvoters to become voters.
Instead of covering plane crashes nonstop, CNN and MSNBC cover and debate politics 24-7.199 This means that every issue the press covers is put through a sometimes cynical political filter: How does this help their campaign? How does Candidate A’s criminal justice policy affect African American turnout? How will Trump voters respond to a wealth tax?
That filter reinforces all the worst impressions about politics. It’s particularly damaging for Democrats whose only path to victory depends on convincing nonvoters to become voters. The solution is to go above, around, and through the filter. Every day the campaign needs to wake up thinking not about their press strategy, but about what content they are going to create to tell their own story.
