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obsolete and won’t work anymore.
    Barack Obama has changed America in such fundamental ways that we now need to revise our game plan and adapt to those elemental alterations in our body politic. We used to be one united country whose politics were dominated by an overriding consensus, but Obama has divided us into two armed camps glaring at each other across a no-man’s land. Obama has all but eliminated the swing voter. You are either part of Obama’s coalition—at its core a demographic grouping—or you are against him. If you are born black or Latino, if you are a single mother, LGBT, or under 35, you are part of the Obama Party. And now he seeks to make it the Hillary Party.
    For 20 years, our politics have revolved around the pursuit of the swing voters. But it won’t work today. There aren’t enough of them. They’ve become an endangered species. Once our GOP candidates obsessively pursued moderate Republicans and conservativeDemocrats, chasing down every last one and tempering their views to appeal to the center, but we cannot do that anymore. Instead, we have to win the same way Obama won: by drawing clear distinctions between the candidates and the issues, embracing what Reagan called “bold colors, not pale pastels.”
    In this election, the bold colors are the urgent issues that are important to voters from both ends of the spectrum—the Progressives on the Left and the Conservatives on the Right. Surprisingly, they have a lot in common. After all, they both live in the same country. Anyone who looks around will inevitably come to the conclusion that our economy is broken and that we are in trouble. The Left and the Right both see the rapacious Wall Street bonus boys draining our wealth. They both decry trade deals that close our factories and throw our people out of work. The Left and the Right are worried about the government’s intrusive surveillance. Both ends of the political spectrum agree that our schools are failing. So some of the highest priority issues for both the Left and the Right are the same.
    Ralph Nader made the case for this potential affinity between the emerging political insurgencies from the Left and the Right in his most recent book, Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State. Although Ralph Nader may be an unexpected source for conservative political strategy, his prescient point is that the real enemy of those on the Left and the Right who want dramatic change are not each other but the political and corporate establishment. As the change agents on the Left and the Right realize the potential of uniting against their common enemy, in what Nader calls “converging,” the potential for new voters expands.
    So how do we beat Hillary? First, the tactics: The heavy stakes in this election require us to fight like a boxer, using both hands to deliver powerful jabs that cripple our opponent and, at the same time, provide a strong defense. So we need to develop a right jab and a left hook.
    We need to use the right jab to deliver powerful jabs that rock Hillary and resonate with our party base. But we also need the left hookto come around alongside the right jab to appeal to the Sanders voters and knock Hillary out. The right jab will pound out our core issues: the fight against terrorism, the need to restrict immigration, the importance of freeing our economy of taxes and regulations that stymie economic growth, and the urgent need to preserve private health care. Those are the issues that will drive our base to the polls. And Donald Trump is the one who will be able to bring back those who have stayed home in the past, numbed by cynicism into apathy.
    But we need to battle with our left hook, too, to enlist our friends who supported Bernie Sanders in a common struggle to hold Wall Street accountable, end crony capitalism and corporate welfare, revise and junk one-sided trade deals that throw workers out of their jobs, and limit intrusive