Follow this link to the Newsweek piece by Jon Meacham.

He highlights a suggestion for President Obama that he elicited in an interview with former President Bill Clinton.

There are objective reasons that huge numbers of Americans are confused, angry, frustrated, and afraid, said Clinton. In that environment, the proper response is relentless explanation. …

relentless explanation puts into a neat phrase the exact thing that I have felt the Democratic party and its candidates have needed for years. There are some nuances that are worth reading about in the article.

I was dancing around this idea in my previous post Fight Fear With Positive Vision.

The Newsweek article sums up the advice thusly:

But his life and the life of the nation would be a good bit easier in the coming years if he undertook the unpopular armed with the lessons of his first great battle, over health care. First, explain relentlessly. Second, tell us how what you are explaining will lead us to a better place, and describe that place. Assume nothing; repeat yourself until you are numb. Only then will the message begin to sink in. It is a curious irony that Obama has been hobbled by a failure to communicate, but he has. The good news is, as Bill Clinton can tell you, there’s always tomorrow.