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Pete Brodnitz, a pollster and consultant, said that the left misunderstands economic discontent and what will connect with voters outside of deep-blue areas. “If you ask people what makes the economy successful in America, they’ll say, it’s hard work. It’s our enterprise. It’s our creativity. It’s our ability to take an idea and turn it into a business,” he told the summit audience. “What the party has been saying is change the social structure to increase fairness, take the billionaires and millionaires down a peg, reduce the big corporations and break them up and have anti-monopoly, and now we say as a defensive thing, we’re going to address prices.” Brodnitz argued that the current approach is reactionary and fails to align with the value voters place on getting ahead through hard work.
