Could you explain what you're talking about.
I hope you've got stronger evidence that "she started listening" than an anecdote about a relative who saw a Facebook alert.
The kettle defense I refer to is the party's blind spot on the issue of rust belt states. Every excuse offered, when looked at dispationately, seems to just be a further indictment of how spectacular a strategic misjudgment they made.
I hammer on the Schumer quote* a lot.
Anyways, the basic choices are
1. She didn't know (uninformed)
2. She knew and was not concerned enough to act (poor instincts/bad judgement)
3. She knew and acted, yet still failed to correct (leadership/resolve).
A Facebook alert seems like a 2 or 3.
Much like when we see Rs offer up a plethora of reasons, some being inconsistent with others, on this issue there's a basic rejection of just admitting we blew it.
Maybe our party is even just plain out of step with the values systems there. There doesn't need to be fault assigned at all.
There's a whole world of options to explore in terms of "so how do we respond" that remain outside the conversation when "we didn't mess up I swear(!)" is baked in.
External factors are gonna external factor.
From among those internal factors we can (ostensibly, I remain...hesitant) control, what can we modify?
How do we make this tent bigger (always knowing that expanding one way can cost elsewhere)?
*“For every blue-collar Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia, and you can repeat that in Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin."
Yes perceived.