Eugene Daniels, formerly of Politico, is the senior Washington correspondent for MSNOW, the network formerly known as MSNBC. Daniels was also the president of the White House Correspondents’ Association at one point.During a segment on the DNC’s 2024 autopsy this week, Daniels was asked what approach Democrats should take going forward and suggested that it is possible to embrace identity politics and talk about ‘kitchen table’ issues, like abortion and trans kids.I wasn’t sure this was real until I saw the video.NewsBusters reported:
Eugene Daniels Says Dems Should Focus On Kitchen Table Issues Like Trans KidsEven by the low standards of MS NOW, senior Washington correspondent Eugene Daniels’s Thursday appearance on Chris Jansing Reports was a stellar example of how not to do journalism. Daniels’s title suggests that the network views him as a reporter, but he decided to go full activist. According to him, Democrats need “to be more comfortable with power” and that the party needs to focus more on “kitchen table issues,” which he somehow defined as abortion and gender transitioning children.Reacting to the DNC’s autopsy, Jansing read a portion aloud that suggested Democrats’ problem is that they are just too smart for the electorate, “They claim Republicans are just better at politics. Quote, ‘At times it seems Democrats are trying to win arguments while Republicans are focused on winning elections. Democrats operate in an ecosystem defined by reason, even in cycles when the electorate is defined by rage.’ What should Democrats do with that?”Daniels began his response by declaring, “They should be more comfortable with the idea of power. And this is something that Democrats have been saying. I’ve talked to Chuck about this in the past, the idea that at the end of the day, if you are not in office, you can’t do anything. And when you talk about winning hearts and minds, that is very important.”…Usually, kitchen table issues mean things like the jobs or the cost of living, but Daniels took an extremely broad definition:
When you talk about whether or not people can have access to healthy abortions—safe abortions, that is a kitchen table issue, right? Whether or not a trans kid can get the services they need, that is a kitchen table issue for families. So, it’s about crafting the message in a way that actually gets to the point that Chuck and a lot of other folks say, which is people look at the money leaving their pockets, they look at the party in power, they want some change, and they’re willing to flirt with candidates and with parties they haven’t been before.
This is simply unreal. Watch:
This just confirms something that I have been saying for weeks. The Democrats learned nothing from the 2024 election and have not changed at all since the 2024 election.
If they get back into power, they will pick up exactly where they left off the day before the 2024 election.
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