Nick Arama writes for RedState.com about an interesting source of criticism of the Democratic Party.
Democrats continue to implode, and now there’s one Democrat who is calling them out.
On Sunday, on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Jake Tapper spoke with Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Co), who is retiring to run for governor. Tapper said that given Bennet was doing it in part because of his frustration with Congress and “frankly, with Democratic leadership,” and “given the Democratic Party’s record low popularity now,” does the Democratic brand help him or hurt him?
Wow, Tapper went there.
Bennet’s response was not good for the Democrats.
“I don’t think nationally the Democratic brand helps very much anyway…anywhere,” Bennet replied. Oof, so true.
“If it did, we wouldn’t have lost to Donald Trump twice,” he continued.
He said many of his supporters and friends are furious at people they don’t think were standing up enough to Trump, and that he is personally furious with the Democratic Party for losing twice.
But the American people elected Trump. They didn’t want the Democrats, which is why Kamala Harris lost, as well as why the Democrats lost the House and the Senate. He said he thinks the American people voted for Trump to “blow the place [Washington, D.C.] up.” But what he’s missing is the American people want the policies that Trump is championing. They don’t just want things blown up (in a figurative use of the term); they want things better.
Bennet acknowledged that Democrats have failed on basic kitchen table issues, like the economy:
“I think they’re sick of a Democratic Party who [sic] hasn’t been able to show how we’re going to address an economy where the middle class continues to shrink and where over the last 20 years we have actually lost ground in terms of the achievement of our kids in school,” Bennet posited.
