From “A Georgia Democrat finds the perfect way to talk to voters” by Paul Fanlund at The Cap times:

“At 39, he is the Senate’s youngest member. Ossoff gave what national pundits have already dubbed the “Epstein class” speech before an Atlanta audience on Feb. 7.

“We were told that MAGA was for working-class Americans,” Ossoff told that crowd. “But this is a government of, by, and for the ultra-rich. It is the wealthiest cabinet ever. This is the Epstein class ruling our country. They are the elites they pretend to hate.

“(Trump) was supposed to drain the swamp,” he added. “Instead, this is the most corrupt administration of all time and everybody knows it.”

It was a simple yet brilliant negative branding, tying the scandal of the disgraced pedophile Jeffrey Epstein to the economy that enriches Trump and Republican economic elites.

Democratic strategist Matt McDermott, with nearly 100,000 followers on X, wrote of the speech: “Jon Ossoff renames the MAGA elites running the country: the Epstein class,” according to Newsweek.

Newsweek reported that an account on X named “Call to Activism,” which aims to expose MAGA corruption, defend democracy and that has 1.1 million followers, said: “Jon Ossoff is on fire at his rally.”

Progressive political YouTuber Jack Cocchiarella wrote: “Every Democrat needs to watch this video and sound more like Jon Ossoff.”

I listened to all of it on YouTube and emerged enormously impressed with how Ossoff’s message might appeal to elusive white, working-class voters as well as the different ideological and identity groups within the Democratic base.

Ossoff also ripped Trump for his recent post that portrayed Barack and Michelle Obama as apes.

“You’re seeing what I’m seeing, right?” Ossoff asked his audience. “The president posting about the Obamas like a Klansman at 1 a.m.”

Yes, I thought, that is the perfect analogy.

He also told the audience: “You see our government transformed into a tool of one man’s personal vengeance, power and enrichment.”

Ossoff pounded Republican actions on health insurance costs: “While prices are going up and jobs are getting harder to find, they decided to let health insurance premiums double for more than 20 million Americans.”

In a “Project Battleground” essay on Substack, political strategist Chase Lindsey wrote this about the speech: “I didn’t watch Jon Ossoff in Atlanta for inspiration. I watched him the way an organizer watches anything: for what actually moves people.”

He continued, “Democrats love persuasion theater. We love the fantasy that if we just explain ourselves better (cleaner charts, nicer tone, sharper policy) we’ll win. But that’s not the country we’re organizing in. People aren’t confused. They’re bruised. They’re watching prices climb, jobs wobble, hospitals cut back, and politics get used like a personal weapon. They’re waiting to see if anyone will talk about it without flinching. Ossoff did.”

Finland notes that U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan said: “First and foremost, Democrats need to get much more ruthless about winning,” which, she added, is not necessarily compatible with the “weird consensus-based leadership” Democratic leaders lean toward.

Fanlund adds, “Something to think about next time you read about the Democratic squabbles between young and old, identity groups versus the general population, the center left and the far left.

Before you can do anything, help anyone, you have to, you know, actually win elections. Sounding more like Ossoff might help.”

Read the whole article here. You can support Ossoff’s re-election campaign here.