Following Democrat candidate Terry McAuliffe’s humiliating defeat in the Virginia governor’s race on Tuesday night, a panel of analysts at left-wing media corporation CNN agreed that many voters view Democrats as “annoying and offensive and out-of-touch,” “annoying to a lot of people,” “moralizing” and “self-righteous.”
“I think Democrats have to look in the mirror now, because the New Jersey situation, you don’t have a lot of critical race theory stuff there, you don’t have a bunch of Trump, you don’t have Terry McAuliffe, you know, doing dumb – there’s something happening out here, it could be just anti-incumbent. I think that’s a part of it,” CNN’s Van Jones said. “But I think that there’s something else that’s happening. I think that the Democrats are coming across in way we don’t recognize, that are annoying and offensive and seem out-of-touch, in ways that I don’t think show up in our feeds, when we’re looking at our kind of echo chamber.”
Van Jones: “Democrats are coming across as annoying and offensive and out-of-touch. I think there is a message here.”
Anderson Cooper. “It seems annoying to a lot of people” pic.twitter.com/htNI89luii
— Michael Shellenberger (@ShellenbergerMD) November 3, 2021
“When you’re talking about ‘our,’ you’re talking about Democrats, it seems annoying to a lot of people,” Anderson Cooper agreed.
David Axelrod said, “I think that the attitude is important, Van. I mean, we’ve become, you know, the Democratic Party, what you’ve seen is it’s become a more college educated urban party, a coalition with minority voters, and the messages tend to be moralizing,” prompting Jones to nod and chime in, “Moralizing. Self-Righteous.”
“Voters are being brow-beaten in being told they’re voting for racists. People do not believe that about themselves and do not believe that America is full of the hateful kind of people that McAuliffe & Biden told us Virginia was full of” pic.twitter.com/6WRGSzDsGd
— Michael Shellenberger (@ShellenbergerMD) November 3, 2021
Referring to McAuliffe’s decision to cast all opponents of his anti-parent agenda as racists, another panelist said, “People do not believe that about themselves and do not believe that America is full of the hateful kind of people that McAuliffe & Biden told us Virginia was full of.”
