If someone had commissioned an Onion-style parody article about the Democratic Party’s efforts to broaden their appeal ahead of the midterms, it might have looked a lot like what Politico reported this week.

Democratic officials and politicians have been huddling with a loose organization of some three dozen Hollywood influencers at the Los Angeles headquarters of a high-powered public relations firm to strategize about their messaging.

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