Step 3: These opposing factions in your party will now be thoroughly frustrated. Good work! It’s time to kick it up a notch – by aggressively, relentlessly pursuing a legislative agenda that they obviously can’t support.
Ideally, you’ll want the leadership in the Congress to be chock full of fellow Northern/urban members. You can’t control that yourself, but if you’re so lucky as to have leaders equally committed to shrinking the size of your party – you can let them do most of the work. Take a back seat and just exhort them to follow their instincts. They’ll take care of the rest!
Again, think multi-dimensionally. For instance, if the focus is on health care, encourage them to push through a massive expansion of government. That’s bound to aggravate the South, which has never been too thrilled about the idea of a big federal government. But also, do not try to stop your urban allies if they push for a “robust” public option, which would be a particularly tough pill for rural members of Congress to swallow.
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