The Left is cannibalizing itself. They can’t figure out why they lost.
And now a former Obama official broke ranks and eviscerated the Democrat Party.
David Axelrod, Barack Obama’s former chief strategist, issued a strong warning to the Democratic Party after Kamala Harris’s loss in the presidential election, saying the party risks alienating the working class by turning into a “smarty pants, suburban, college-educated party.”
Speaking on CNN with Anderson Cooper, Axelrod, now a network contributor, dissected why he thinks the Democrats lost to Donald Trump.
He voiced deep concerns about how the party has been drifting from its working-class roots.
Highlighting the shifts in the party’s base, Axelrod pointed out that “the only group the political party gained in the election was White college graduates who make more than a hundred thousand dollars a year.”
He continued, “You can’t win national elections that way, and it certainly shouldn’t be that way for a party that fashions itself as the party of working people.”
Axelrod also criticized how Democrats sometimes come across to working-class voters:
“You can’t approach working people like missionaries and say, ‘We’re here to help you become more like us.’ There’s a kind of unspoken disdain, unintended disdain in that.”
Still, he acknowledged President Joe Biden’s efforts, saying Biden has “done programmatically good things for working people.”
But he cautioned that the Democratic Party itself “has increasingly become a smarty pants, suburban, college-educated party, and it lends itself to the kind of backlash we’ve seen.”
Earlier this week, Axelrod also noted how “racism and s*xism” factored into Harris’s defeat.
“Let’s be absolutely blunt about it,” he said.
“There were appeals to racism in this campaign, and there is racial bias in this country, and there is s*xism in this country, and anybody who thinks that that did not in any way impact on the outcome of this race is wrong.”
He clarified, however, that he wasn’t suggesting this was the primary reason Trump defeated Harris.
Meanwhile, Harris’s campaign co-chair Rep. Roberto Garcia faced tough questions from CNN’s Jake Tapper about why the Democratic nominee lost ground with Latino men.
Garcia admitted Harris “won the Latino vote overall” but acknowledged the party has “a lot of work to do with Latino men” following the election.
In a historic turn, Trump managed to capture 46 percent of all Latino voters — the highest level of support any Republican candidate has received among this group in recent times.
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