MSNBC’s Scarborough: Democrats are “clueless”

August 3, 2017

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough pointed out the root problem for Democrats: they are absolutely “clueless.”

Scarborough noted that the national party remains out of touch with working class voters.

Panelist Lanhee Chen said it best, the Democrats have a problem they can’t solve by “hiring an ad agency to tell them to rebrand a pizza commercial to define their agenda.”

Via Free Beacon

MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough on Thursday told his panel that national Democrats are “clueless” and that they are disconnected from working-class Americans.

Scarborough drew rebuke from co-host Mika Brzezinski when he said that Democrats were “clueless.” While he admitted that there were a few good ads from Democrats, he said that the national party was “clueless.”

“They are just as disconnected from working-class Americans as they’ve ever been,” Scarborough said. “I mean are they going to blow this advantage that Trump’s been giving to them. Is there concerns among Democratic activists and Democratic donors that the Democratic leadership still doesn’t get it?”

“But it’s a better deal,” Brzezinski joked.

“A better deal, but not a real vision of where they want to go. We’ll get to this on immigration. Immigration is one of those issues,” Rattner said.

Scarborough said the Democrats’ “Better Deal” slogan sounded more like a “Hardee’s ad.”

“The Democratic Party has lost white working-class Americans because of immigration. That’s an issue and there’s such a blindspot that they don’t understand,” Scarborough said. “They really don’t understand that for a lot of working-class Americans, a flood of immigrants into the United States means not only do they lose their jobs, but they are also smart enough to know it depresses their wages.”

Lanhee Chen, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, agreed and said that the Democrats have “no coherence” to their political agenda right now.

“They have a policy challenge. They have a messaging challenge. They have a generational challenge in the Democratic Party,” Chen said. “Where are the leaders in the Democratic Party? They’re seen as being from a different generation. That is a problem, but they’re not going to solve by the way by hiring an ad agency to tell them to re-brand a pizza commercial to define their agenda.”