US EditionWords Democrats Shouldn’t Say Anymore
Third Way advises Democrats to avoid 42 jargon-heavy terms to better connect with voters and counteract the influence of Donald Trump and MAGA supporters, says executive VP Matt Bennett.
- On Thursday, the center-left think tank Third Way released a memo addressed to `All Who Wish to Stop Donald Trump and MAGA` listing 45 words and phrases Democrats should avoid.
- Facing 2024 losses and shrinking support, Third Way urges Democrats to build a bigger army to stop the catastrophe of Trump 2.0 after losing 2.1 million voters.
- The memo breaks the terms into six categories, noting flagged words like `birthing person`, `microaggression`, `privilege`, `the unhoused`, and `incarcerated people`.
- Matt Bennett argued Democrats must `talk like normal people` as Third Way warned such language erects a `wall between us and everyday people`, cautioning clearer speech isn't a guaranteed White House path.
- In recent weeks, comedians and critics highlighted the jargon, and messaging aired more than 30,000 times in swing states shifted races toward Trump, raising Democratic policy trade-offs over language and progressive agendas.
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Editorial: Dems should wake up, lose ‘woke’ talking points
Democrats, use your words. But choose different ones, please, if you want to win back voters. “Woke speak” has got to go. In a new memo, shared exclusively with POLITICO, the center-left think tank Third Way is circulating a list of 45 words and phrases they want Democrats to avoid using. It alleges the terms put “a wall between us and everyday people.” The words, according to the authors, make Democrats “sound like the extreme, divisive, elitis…
Words Democrats should avoid to stop sounding like ‘enforcers of wokeness’ — according to center-left think tank
Center-left think tank Third Way on Friday released a list of 45 words and phrases that Democrats should cut from their vocabulary to stop sounding like “enforcers of wokeness.”
Woke Words On the Chopping Block As Democratic Party Brand Is Deemed ‘Toxic’ – California Globe
In an interview this week with Fox News host Laura Ingraham, Vice President J.D. Vance advised Democrats to “Stop sounding like crazy people,” as Democrats struggle with their self-inflicted identity crisis after their shellacking last November. Vance’s simple advice didn’t fall on deaf ears. Center-left think tank Third Way has released a memo to POLITICO’s Playbook containing a list of 45 words and phrases for Democrats to avoid in order to co…
Liberal think tank shows Democrats how to 'talk like normal people' in memo
Democrats should speak more “like normal people” and examine their language, liberal think tank Third Way said in a memo. The Democratic Party is scrutinizing its messaging, platform, and candidates that it’s marketing to Americans after a decisive 2024 election loss. Third Way, in a memo addressed to “All Who Wish to Stop Donald Trump and MAGA” and titled, “Was it something I said?” believes Democrats “use an awful lot of words and phrases no o…
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