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Him: "How can I better appeal to the block that swore never to vote for me?"

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[–] Xerxos@lemmy.ml 10 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Same in Germany: The center right CDU tries to get voters from the far right AFD. Never worked, but they keep on trying.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 9 points 21 hours ago

the democrats are going to try again; that's why they blocked the release of their post-mortem investigation into the last election.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

That's more like our Conservative party doing it (which they are), but Labour is meant to be a worker's party.

[–] mathemachristian@lemmy.ml 4 points 17 hours ago

In 2002, twelve years after Margaret Thatcher left office, she was asked at a dinner what was her greatest achievement. Thatcher replied: “Tony Blair and New Labour. We forced our opponents to change their minds.

https://economicsociology.org/2018/03/19/thatcherisms-greatest-achievement/