“I look back to the 2020 lines of argumentation about why we needed Donald Trump out and what Joe Biden could provide, and it was a safe pair of hands,” Tarlov told David Remnick in a New Yorker interview posted Tuesday to YouTube. “And I believe without COVID that Trump would have won reelection, and I wish that he had. I wish we were done now because he, like [“The Little Mermaid” villain] Ursula, got stronger in those four years.”
Tarlov noted the increased power of advisers such as Stephen Miller and the impact of the Project 2025 conservative manifesto.
“I hate that we gave them four years to take a sledgehammer to the country, and we haven’t found a way to deliver our vision for the future in simple slogans,” she said.
“Because we’re too decorous, too mild?” Remnick asked.
“I get why it’s interesting to write a big policy paper or dig deep into what happened,” she replied. “But for me, it’s like, just give me the bumper stickers. Where’s your ‘no tax on tips’?
“But we, like good liberals, have ingested all of these learnings and have yet to spit something out that can win an election on our ideas and our merits and not just not being the other guy,” she added.