Wednesday morning on “Morning Joe,” MSNBC host Chris Matthews, opining on the 50th anniversary of Robert Kennedy’s death, gave Democrats a quick lesson in appealing to average Americans: stop trying to be their intellectual superiors.
Matthews, it seems, is over the “progressive” Democratic Party that once sent a thrill rising up his leg, and in a shocking speech to, of all people, Joe Scarborough, railed against faux liberalism.
“There are real liberals and there are phonies,” Matthews said, speaking of the legacies of men like Kennedy and former Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill, in comparison to today’s progressive leftist. “They’re pie-in-the-sky … always looking into the middle distance, they think they’re better than everybody else, because they went to Yale Law or whatever.”
“A true Democrat — lower-case ‘d’ — thinks they’re no better than anybody else,” Matthews continued. “There’s so much elitism in the Democratic Party. Its so outrageous. And it all comes down to this notion of the meritocracy being entirely academic-based. You never hear of a master plumber being elite, but he is. She is.”
“It’s about sensing that your leaders give a damn about you personally,” Matthews concluded. “I’m tired of it, I’m sick of it, and I’m rooting against them.”
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