Democratic strategist Julie Roginsky issued “some hard truths” about Donald Trump’s historic election win during a CNN segment Thursday, claiming her own side is “not the party of common sense” and can’t talk to normal people.
“I’m going to speak some hard truths to my friends in the Democratic Party. This is not Joe Biden’s fault. It’s not Kamala Harris’ fault. It’s not Barack Obama’s fault — it is the fault of the Democratic Party in not knowing how to communicate effectively to voters,” she said.
“We are not the party of common sense, which is the message that voters sent to us.”
She argued against addressing Latinos as the Latinx because “it makes them think that we don’t even live in the same planet as they do.”
Roginsky, 51, also said liberals need to better condemn young protesters who have caused chaos on college campuses, including at Columbia University, which saw anti-Israel demonstrators occupy a building last school year.
“When we are too afraid to say, ‘Hey college kids, if you’re trashing a campus at Columbia University because you’re unhappy about some sort of policy and you’re taking over a university and you’re trashing it, preventing other students from learning, that that is unacceptable,’” said the co-founder of a worker’s right non-profit Lift Our Voices.
“But we’re so worried about alienating one or another cohort in our coalition that we don’t know what to say when normal people look at that and say, ‘Wait a second, I send my kids to college so they can learn, not so that they can burn buildings and trash lawns.’”
She also blasted pronouns affixed to the end of names, claiming it comes off as “virtue signaling” that needs to stop.
Roginsky said Democrats keep using different language for different people based on focus groups and polling.
“That’s not how normal people think,” she said. “That’s not common sense.”
“I’ve been banging the drum on this for I don’t know how, probably 10 years, if not longer, on this,” Roginsky continued.
“We need to get back to being the party of common sense that people look at us and say, we understand you, we appreciate what you say because you speak our language. And until we do that, we should stop blaming other people for our own mistakes.”
The self-reflection from Roginsky comes after Trump easily topped Harris during Tuesday’s high-stakes election.
