Start with Left-Wing newsletters. Infiltrate churches. Get some socialists on AM Radio. Start a propaganda Leftist cable network. Create partisan think-tanks. This will be a multi-generational fight.
The Right Wing has it figured out. Democrats think they are showing up to a debate club when the other side has been out for blood for the last 50 years.
Energize the base, and the moderates will eventually fall in line (just look how small and ineffectual the "Never Trumpers" turned out to be). The base drives things now. You can't just fire up the base and then slap a Romney or Clinton on top and expect to win elections anymore.
I appreciate your comment. A common theme I've seen through my politically conscious life (15 years maybe?) is that Democrats think Republicans are stupid, where most Republicans just think Democrats are misguided.
Where what you said comes into that is that Democrats think they can win just by nature of Republicans being incompetent. Republicans are out there, like you said, doing the dirty work to win elections and mind/vote-share, because while they disagree with Democrats, they know they can't just rest on their smug sense of superiority.
Democrats know most Republicans are stupid. Democrats just don't realize most of them are stupid too. Democrats try to play like it's an even playing field where everyone is playing by the same rules and are too afraid to get their hand dirty or be seen as having had to overcome issues in the past. Republicans see character flaws as a bonus just to spite the libtards because Rush told them right. The smart ones in the political sphere are just two sides of the same coin with slightly different opinions on the same issues to anchor what they think should matter in people's minds. I'd politics were rational we'd have significantly different political systems than we have now.
The Right Wing has it figured out. Democrats think they are showing up to a debate club when the other side has been out for blood for the last 50 years.
Energize the base, and the moderates will eventually fall in line (just look how small and ineffectual the "Never Trumpers" turned out to be). The base drives things now. You can't just fire up the base and then slap a Romney or Clinton on top and expect to win elections anymore.