Democratic strategist Chuck Rocha argued that President Trump’s reputation will be defined by the very fact he embraces the insurance policies Democrats as soon as stood for.
Many Democrats, nonetheless reeling from Trump’s victory in November, are nonetheless attempting to determine how their celebration misplaced to any person as controversial as Trump.
CNN’s “Laura Coates Live” featured a section on Friday the place the host and her visitors took questions from callers about American politics.
One caller inquired, “My question is, Donald Trump is a very scary guy, what makes him so popular?”
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Democratic strategist Chuck Rocha lamented that Trump’s reputation is pushed by his embrace of sensible insurance policies that Democrats deserted years in the past.
“This is my favorite question,” Rocha replied. “We‘ve talked about it on this program before. I joined the Democratic Party in 1989 because I wanted to fight NAFTA. I wanted to drain the swamps. I wanted to make sure that my tax dollars weren‘t going to foreign wars or wasted.”
The Democratic strategist then argued, “That sounds like Donald Trump today. That‘s why we lose to him, is we’ve let him steal our verbiage. We’ve give up speaking about working Individuals, conserving America protected, doing the issues that we did once I joined this celebration. And that’s the explanation — he’s scary, however he‘s not scary to enough people to lose elections because he sounds like the Democrats and why I joined this party.”
Former Trump campaign advisor Bryan Lanza rejected the idea that Trump is scary altogether.
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“Listen, I think Trump is not scary when you think about what’s scary with out Trump in Washington, D.C.” he mentioned.
As an alternative, he proposed what would really be scary is “an out of control bureaucracy that’s invading our lives every day more and more, and people want to change from that.”
“And I believe that‘s why — you know, I‘m sorry you feel scared, but I think more and more people feel comfortable with what‘s going on,” he added.
“You should be sitting here. I‘m scared,” Rocha quipped.
“I’m not scared. I’m a Latino and I’m not scared,” Lanza joked in reply, getting fun from Rocha.
