I think we are largely aligned: you are absolutely correct, Dems should not try and win over the lost souls.  Where we disagree, I think, is I do not agree that every “white kid spawned by Republicans” is a lost soul, nor do I agree that attempting to meet them where they are is a lost cause.  If anything, that line of thinking is a self-fulfilling prophecy, as we have seen over the last decade.  Many of them merely just want to felt heard, which only one group is even attempting at this point.  And Dems don’t even need to change their messaging: their platform on employment, healthcare, education, etc. is widely popular… they just have to figure out how to effectively get their ideas to that audience.  Honestly, writing them completely off proves that the bullshit they’ve been told about Democrats over the last decade by the bad faith right wing commentators is not all wrong.