David Axelrod Says Democrats’ Problem Is That They’ve Become a ‘Smart-Pants, Suburban, College-Educated Party’

David Axelrodformer chief strategist and senior advisor to the President Barack ObamaHe warned Democrats on Thursday that they were losing the working class by becoming increasingly “a smart-pants, suburban, college-educated party.”

Vice President discussing Kamala Harris beat To the President-Elect Donald Trump Axelrod told the anchor on CNN: Anderson Cooper:

I have concerns about the Democratic Party’s relationship with working-class voters in this country. The only group Democrats gained in Tuesday’s election was white college graduates, with a steep decline among working-class voters. The only group of them that won – the Democrats won – were people who made more than a hundred thousand dollars a year. That’s not how you win national elections, and it certainly shouldn’t be that way for a party that describes itself as the party of working people.

He warned: “You cannot approach working people like missionaries and say, ‘We are here to make you more like us.’ “There is an unspoken contempt in this, an unintentional condescension,” he concludes. Joe Biden had done “some good things for working people,” “the party itself has increasingly become a hip, suburban, college-educated party, and is susceptible to the kind of backlash we see.”

NBC News chief political analyst chuck todd did similar evaluation On Tuesday, he argued that the Democratic Party’s loss ultimately led to a “complete misreading” by “coastal strategists.”

Regarding the Republican Party’s gains with Latino voters, Todd noted that “the Republican Party treats them the same way it treats white working-class voters” while “the Democratic Party spends a lot of time treating it as an identity group.”

“This was something that was completely misread by coastal strategists when it came to how to target working-class voters of color,” he concluded. “And I think we’re starting to see some sort of working-class coalition begin to shift to the right.”

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