May 28, 2025 10:39 PM
(This post was last modified: May 28, 2025 10:44 PM by C C.)
https://youtu.be/XwHt-CcaTUc
VIDEO EXCERPTS: More and more the party has come to approach working people like missionaries and anthropologists. We show up and we say we're here to help you become like us, and we know what you need, and we're fighting for it.
There's a fundamental disrespect associated with that, and I think that's been communicated. I think that disdain has been weaponized by Trump.
[...] i'm not sure that any Democrat would have won. ... If you had given me a piece of paper in the fall of 2024, and it only had three numbers on it, and the numbers were 28, 40 and 70 -- with 28 being the percentage of Americans who thought the country was on the right track, 40% being the president's approval rating, and something approaching 70% saying that the economy was fair or poor -- I would have told you that that party [without knowing which it was] ... is going to lose that election because no party has ever won with numbers like that.
The vice president didn't help by being unwilling to separate herself in any way from any of the policies of President Biden.
[...] I think Democrats do themselves a disservice by not engaging in some introspection ... on how it is that the party that sees itself as the party of working people came to be seen by so many working people as a party of elites and institutions. At a time when many of them feel like elites and institutions had betrayed them.
[...] The Democratic Party has become more of an urban, suburban, professional college educated party.
[...] Trump, whether you like it or not, is tearing down a lot of norms, a lot of programs. ... Things that are going to wound us for generations.
Some of the things he's tearing down probably needed to be torn down. I spent two years in Washington -- in the White House, and I got a pretty good look at Washington. And the fact is, yes, there is bureaucracy that has a life of its own. Inertia is a very powerful force [...can't close down a department or agenda even after its original purpose becomes moot...].
Sometimes I feel like the Democratic Party is fighting to maintain the institutions and programs of the 20th century, and Trump's fighting to restore the programs and approaches of the 19th century. And we're sitting here in the 21st century, and we ought to be thinking about how we approach these problems in the 21st century...
COMMENT: He doesn't mention that calling or implying that the proletariat are religious nuts, racists, anti-Semites, misogynists, LGBT+ phobic, etc doesn't help, either. Even Marx and his successor intellectual leaders knew what the Salt of the Earth encompassed when they courted and contracted with them to be their revolutionary hordes for overthrowing capitalist governments and implementing socioeconomic rehabilitation.
Obama Advisor: Why Working People Hate the Democrats Now ... https://youtu.be/XwHt-CcaTUc
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/XwHt-CcaTUc
VIDEO EXCERPTS: More and more the party has come to approach working people like missionaries and anthropologists. We show up and we say we're here to help you become like us, and we know what you need, and we're fighting for it.
There's a fundamental disrespect associated with that, and I think that's been communicated. I think that disdain has been weaponized by Trump.
[...] i'm not sure that any Democrat would have won. ... If you had given me a piece of paper in the fall of 2024, and it only had three numbers on it, and the numbers were 28, 40 and 70 -- with 28 being the percentage of Americans who thought the country was on the right track, 40% being the president's approval rating, and something approaching 70% saying that the economy was fair or poor -- I would have told you that that party [without knowing which it was] ... is going to lose that election because no party has ever won with numbers like that.
The vice president didn't help by being unwilling to separate herself in any way from any of the policies of President Biden.
[...] I think Democrats do themselves a disservice by not engaging in some introspection ... on how it is that the party that sees itself as the party of working people came to be seen by so many working people as a party of elites and institutions. At a time when many of them feel like elites and institutions had betrayed them.
[...] The Democratic Party has become more of an urban, suburban, professional college educated party.
[...] Trump, whether you like it or not, is tearing down a lot of norms, a lot of programs. ... Things that are going to wound us for generations.
Some of the things he's tearing down probably needed to be torn down. I spent two years in Washington -- in the White House, and I got a pretty good look at Washington. And the fact is, yes, there is bureaucracy that has a life of its own. Inertia is a very powerful force [...can't close down a department or agenda even after its original purpose becomes moot...].
Sometimes I feel like the Democratic Party is fighting to maintain the institutions and programs of the 20th century, and Trump's fighting to restore the programs and approaches of the 19th century. And we're sitting here in the 21st century, and we ought to be thinking about how we approach these problems in the 21st century...
COMMENT: He doesn't mention that calling or implying that the proletariat are religious nuts, racists, anti-Semites, misogynists, LGBT+ phobic, etc doesn't help, either. Even Marx and his successor intellectual leaders knew what the Salt of the Earth encompassed when they courted and contracted with them to be their revolutionary hordes for overthrowing capitalist governments and implementing socioeconomic rehabilitation.
Obama Advisor: Why Working People Hate the Democrats Now ... https://youtu.be/XwHt-CcaTUc