Eitan Hersh’s Politics Is for Power explains why liberals keep losing

Sean Illing at Vox:

If you spend a lot of time consuming news, there’s a good chance you’re doing politics wrong….

This is the thesis of a new book called Politics Is for Power by Eitan Hersh, a political scientist at Tufts University. …

He coins the term “political hobbyism” to capture the problem. “We participate in politics by obsessive news-following and online slacktivism, by feeling the need to offer a hot take for each daily political flare-up, by emoting and arguing and debating, almost all of this from behind screens,” Hersh says. Many of us think we’re politically active — but in fact, we’re doing little more than signaling who we are to other people. We may be emotionally invested in politics, but we’re not actually committed to solving problems….

Hersh argues you need to get out in the community and engage with other people to make change. Work locally, where individuals have an impact, not nationally, where our voices barely matter. Bottom up, not top down.

Conservatives get this, which is why they’ve been winning, Hersh says. Liberals are mostly clueless in this area.

Yep.