Geordan Neinstein

Building new media tech for Dems @newdigitalnow | prev: @dlcc | always: @dodgers | fear leads to anger, anger leads to clicks, clicks lead to ad revenue

[Geordan Neinstein @GNeinstein]

@samstein Trump is running it like a reality show, and Dems are overwhelmed. Our team sent a (very real, not scammy-looking) survey to online donors to hear their thoughts, and these are the highlights: https://t.co/FWqg59K3BW

[New. Digital. Now. PAC @newdigitalnow]

It's been ~a week~ since Trump moved back into the White House...

On this episode of Concepts of a Pod, @GNeinstein and @ShaynaJaskolka share our Democratic Focus Group's thoughts and comments on the past week as we figure out a new strategy to fight back. Full episode here:

[Geordan Neinstein @GNeinstein]

@MattZeitlin @AJentleson Even more fascinating that the talking points they’ve replaced it with come straight from the world of state-sponsored oil barons

[Stefan Smith @TheStefanSmith]

There are three 2028 audiences to care about this far in advance: party insiders, media elites, and cultural influencers. It’s not voters (IMO).

The goal now til November should be to make your eventual campaign announcement seem credible in what will be a very crowded window.

[Geordan Neinstein @GNeinstein]

This. Privilege should be seen as a responsibility to use those advantages to contribute to society in a positive way, not a zero sum evil.

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

“People complain about ‘nepo babies,’ but do you know what’s worse than a nepo baby? Someone who grows up with the advantage of privileged birth but is too mediocre or lazy to parlay that advantage into professional success, instead flailing underemployed through middle age on the parental dime until he is somehow rescued from his failure to launch by getting elected to public office. That’s the Fetterman-Platner model,” @jbarro

[Jon Levine @LevineJonathan]

FWIW — a guy who openly wore a Nazi tattoo for 18 years complaining about AIPAC kinda hits differently

[Eric Michael Garcia @EricMGarcia]

The rationalizations I am hearing from some folks about Graham Platner (you don’t have to like him but you have to beat Susan Collins) sound strikingly similar to the excuses I heard Republicans made for supporting Donald Trump after Access Hollywood.

[Geordan Neinstein @GNeinstein]

@OrganizerMemes Maybe not this time around... https://t.co/ijxizL5ouQ

[Geordan Neinstein @GNeinstein]

@ThirdWayKessler Sara Gideon, but make it leftist!

[LGBTQ for Dems @LGBTQPete]

If Platner didn’t realize he had a Nazi tattoo why is he hiding it in the nudes he sent to women behind his wife’s back?

[Stefan Smith @TheStefanSmith]

I would love to know how this performs vs their 30-60-90 day baseline.

[shelby cole @shelbylcole]

bro our cake got a headline im crying

[Geordan Neinstein @GNeinstein]

@AndrewSolender How are they that bad at this?

[Stefan Smith @TheStefanSmith]

It wasn’t supposed to; the autopsy is an insider product meant to give direction to party elites, donors and staffers while giving media a pivot point for future stories. Stretch goal was a media moment to help with donors. Failed those.

[Bobby Fakename, Esq. @BobFakeNameEsq]

Jon hasn’t tweeted about the Voting Rights Act since 2023.

[The San Andreas Fault @sanandreafault]

Hi, it's me, I'm the reason

[Darrell Issa Unemployment Project @Alejandro27Ale]

The other thing I think about here:

Even if we put aside the *moral* calculus, it's pretty clear that allowing candidates like Platner into the party and giving them a platform will hurt us *electorally* down the road.

What happens when our candidate quality edge slips?

[Joe @electionsjoe]

Republicans are literally in a cult. They're really throwing out a 24-year incumbent senator for a scandal-plagued serial cheater, because their leader told them to.

[Charlie Olafsson @charlie_2221]

This is 100% what “digital time” should look like in this day and age.

In practice, this looks like ~ 3 hours of dedicated time in the schedule every week.

[Tim @trouble_man90]

If not endorsing Platner is grounds for being primaried, does that mean you all support primarying democrats who didn’t endorse Kamala???

[Geordan Neinstein @GNeinstein]

@Anokataxs Nazis were pretty popular in Germany in the 1930s. Just because he has grassroots support doesn't mean we should skip the paragraph about the Nazi tattoo

[Geordan Neinstein @GNeinstein]

@saikatc Guess guys who display Nazi symbols and sympathizers on their chests stick together https://t.co/GXKuWHFqOC