Democrats continue to try and pick up the pieces after the 2024 elections. But it’s proving harder than expected.
And an ex-MSNBC host declared that the Democrat Party is in ruins over these issues.
In a surprising twist from the liberal echo chamber, former MSNBC host Joy Reid popped up on the I’ve Had It podcast, dishing out advice to her fellow Democrats on how to claw back some ground in America’s heartland. She’s basically admitting that the party’s been ignoring the very folks who’ve been propping up the GOP—those hardworking rural voters left in the dust by both sides.
Reid’s chat with the podcast hosts zeroed in on the Democrats’ desperate need for a strategy overhaul. After years of pushing divisive agendas, she says it’s time to ditch the cultural wars and zero in on the real pain points hitting everyday Americans: skyrocketing costs and economic survival.
She didn’t hold back on calling out her party’s absence in key red states. “When’s the last time a Democrat was in Oklahoma, or Mississippi, or Tennessee, or when was the last time they spent real money to try to win races in these states? They’re absent without official leave in the whole South,” Reid said.
“And Democrats, first of all, they have to get better at just showing up. When’s the last time Democrats went into the hills of West Virginia?”
It’s refreshing to hear a left-wing talking head acknowledge the obvious: the elites in Washington have forgotten about the flyover country. Reid pointed out that struggling White folks in these areas share the same battles as poor people from any background, far more than they do with the wealthier whites who manipulate them from afar.
She hammered home the point that economic desperation crosses all lines. “Poor White people don’t vote. Poor White people, poor Brown people, they don’t vote,” she stated.
“They generally just sort of let it happen, right? But if you went into the We — I mean, Bishop William Barber goes into the hills of West Virginia. Those people want the same thing that we sitting around this table want.”
Reid painted a picture of universal hardships that the political class loves to ignore. “They want a decent life,” she said.
“They want to be able to feed their kids. They want to be able to have a decent home that they can’t lose. They don’t want to, you know, go broke because they need health care. They would like to go to a doctor every so often, go to a dentist. They would like normal things. They don’t have them. And so, but they’re left out there, not just by Republicans who didn’t give a s— about them.”
She also alleges that the GOP thrives on keeping people fired up over social hot buttons.
“As long as they stay racist and stay angry at gay people and the trans people they’ll never meet, they’re happy with them. Democrats just don’t go there at all,” Reid said.
But she isn’t letting Democrats off the hook either. She argues their biggest hurdle isn’t policy—it’s the toxic brand they’ve built around endless progressive crusades that alienate salt-of-the-earth Americans.
“The brand is the issue in a lot of these red states because they view the brand as associated, to your point, with these cultural things with gay marriage and with trans,” Reid stated.
The podcast host jumped in with some lighthearted jabs, highlighting just how out-of-touch the Democrat image has become. “Pronouns,” host Jennifer Welch said. “Black people.”
“Brown immigrant,” Reid said, causing them to laugh. “They’re just like, ‘That’s that brand’ and so people won’t even hear you if you say Democrat.”
Imagine if Democrats actually showed up in those forgotten towns, talking jobs, borders, and family security instead of lectures on wokeness.
It could shake up the game, but let’s be real—they’re too deep in the swamp to change now.
