John Fetterman added his voice to those trying to nudge the Democrat Party in a different direction.
Fetterman isn’t pulling any punches.
And John Fetterman had one piece of advice that Democrats are going to hate.
John Fetterman says Democrat Party needs a new communication strategy
Donald Trump built the most diverse, working-class GOP coalition in generations.
Trump won 21 percent of black men and 46 percent of Hispanic voters.
Trump also made inroads with young voters, winning 43 percent of Americans aged 18 to 29.
And Trump won men aged 18 to 29 outright.
Trump’s win was an across-the-board repudiation of the Democrat Party and their woke, socialist agenda.
Fetterman lamented that the Democrat Party’s reaction to polls showing Trump making gains with traditional Democrat constituencies was to lecture these Americans on how supporting Trump was voting against their interests.
“Telling them that ‘I know better than you do,’ that’s not helpful,” Fetterman said in an interview with The New York Times.
Throughout the campaign, Fetterman warned Democrats that Trump’s strength in working-class communities was off the charts.
But Fetterman said Democrats’ only response was condescension.
“I was doing an event with the steelworkers, across the street where I live, and I was noticing [a] different kind of energy with this, with Trump. It was clear at that time that people were voting for Trump. And the Democrats’ response was, ‘Aren’t they smart enough to realize they’re voting against their interests?’” Fetterman added.
“And that’s insulting, and that’s, I mean, that’s, that’s just not helpful. It’s condescending. And if anything, that reinforces that kind of stereotype,” Fetterman continued.
Fetterman claimed a good start for Democrats would be just showing up and talking to working-class voters.
“Have a conversation. Have a conversation with anyone that’s willing to have an honest conversation. That’s always been the rule, and that’s what I’m going to continue,” Fetterman told The Times.
Fetterman’s misdirection
John Fetterman was simply asking Democrats to change who they talked to.
Fetterman wasn’t calling on Democrats to change what they talked about.
Working-class voters revolted against the Democrat Party because of inflation, immigration, and the disastrous Biden-Harris foreign policy that has America sleepwalking toward nuclear war with Russia.
Fetterman didn’t tell Democrats to back off open borders or big government spending sprees that sent inflation spiraling out of control.
Nor was Fetterman urging Democrats to support an end to the war in Ukraine.
Fetterman is a radical Bernie bro at heart.
And Fetterman thinks the Democrat Party can keep its far-left agenda if it merely makes a few cosmetic changes to how it communicates to Americans.
That wasn’t the lesson of the 2024 election.
Voters didn’t send Democrats into timeout because they didn’t like the way they talked to them.
Voters sent Democrats into the political wilderness for the next four years because they didn’t like what Democrats talked about.
