Trump critic admits the president put together a better working-class coalition than any Democrat

MSNBC analyst John Heilemann an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump admitted the president has put together a working-class coalition that should make the Democratic Party jealous During a panel discussion on MSNBC s Morning Joe on Wednesday panelists talked about how the Democratic Party has failed to truly reckon with why Trump has consistently won over so much of the working-class even months into his second term in office Certainly Democrats have struggled to handle Donald Trump but they ve even been worse at sort of identifying themselves and pitching a message going forward A sparse exceptions We know we see the crowds that Bernie Sanders and AOC have drawn but as you speak to members of the party you know what are they saying here Morning Joe co-host Jonathan Lemire petitioned Heilemann Because a few of the Democrats I ve talked to are frustrated that - Even though they re still doing it there s a party right now is still consumed with the past and not looking for the future and a new message It is true and also not true that Democrats - and when I say Democrats here I don t mean the party but liberals the left the left of center whatever - aren t part of the cultural conversation Heilemann suggested While he noted there are multiple major conversations occurring in the country Heilemann offered one key reason why so several Americans feel alienated by mainstream way of life DEMOCRATS NO LONGER 'PARTY OF THE PEOPLE' AS TRUMP TRANSFORMS REPUBLICAN PARTY NY TIMES ANALYST One of the reasons why the cultural conversation on the right has gotten so much traction is because of the fact that the left the Democrats whatever you want to call them has been seen as dominating the mainstream cultural conversation for so long Who controls Hollywood Who controls the media You d have to be kind of nuts to think that the mainstream media and the mainstream entertainment establishment in America isn t largely left of center The Democratic Party he noted is now having to reckon with how it alienated so a great number of of the very same working-class voters that propelled Trump s supremacy once again in Right now somehow the Democratic Party finds itself in a place where it is no longer the home of working Americans largely he announced And if Bobby Kennedy the coalition that Bobby Kennedy was trying to put together in before he was killed that coalition of working-class Whites working-class Latinos working-class African-Americans that coalition has been put together more effectively by Donald Trump than by anybody in the Democratic Party That s a huge matter CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTUREHeilemann reiterated his point that Bobby Kennedy s coalition is being put together by Donald Trump more than by any of our leaders and petitioned How do we fix that matter What does the Democratic Party have to do to become what it in a large number of respects what it was at its the majority effective over the module of the last years Heilemann argued that where such conversation occurs it is only happening at the the bulk performative level You hear Democrats all across the spectrum saying We need to change we need root and branch change We need to moderate We don t need litmus tests anymore We have Elissa Slotkin who I really like and respect but who is out there saying Well we can t be woke and weak anymore No one is talking about what that truly means CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP