The Art of Progressive Persuasion
In recent years, deepening polarization has led to a renewed focus on voter turnout.
But as Maurice Mitchell, national director of the Working Families Party, sees it, persuasion needs to be a bigger part of progressive strategy.
On the first episode of How to Save a Country season 2, Mitchell talks with hosts Felicia Wong and Michael Tomasky about how progressives can better engage with those outside their politics—or outside politics altogether.
“It’s helpful that we have ideas that work, but we need to persuade others that our ideas are their ideas,” he says.
And later, Mitchell discusses how progressive organizations can focus on the most important battles, by expanding on his essay that shook the movement last fall: “Building Resilient Organizations.”
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