REINESS: Anyway, here’s the thing: I don’t care right now what the right thinks about the Democratic Party.

I worry about what I think of the Democratic Party. I don’t like to echo the members of Congress, all three, I don’t like the fact that a small part of our party largely dictates where we are. Even if they are, we are considered the most extremist among us. This is not just a political problem, as we just saw, because none of that helped the other day.

Without a doubt, this is a problem. But we need to understand why we are being held hostage by the far left. No one should and does not want to bow to the extremes of their own party. This simply should not be the case, as majorities should govern, the majority of Democrats do not agree with the things we are accused of.

Now how it works – Think about a few of these things.

I think Democrats believe in common sense more than you think. I mean, it’s not like any of us stay home and don’t talk to anyone. Most Democrats I know think there is a huge problem at the border.

Most Democrats I know frankly believe that males at birth should not play female sports and vice versa.

Now you can have a healthy conversation within a group and you need to have a room within a group for all of that. But at the end of the day, if some of these issues are spread out between 80 and 20 across the country, you really have to understand why they’re so identified with one.

And on the one hand, it’s easy because it’s politically sexy. There’s a reason why $40 million worth of ads on this topic were launched against the vice president. But how we move forward from here is up to us first.

Yes, we must listen to everyone.

But people, again, the Republicans can’t tell us that because they won, as you said, for the first time in 20 years and only the second time in 36 years, the popular vote, what everyone wants.

It’s still a 50-50 country.

So that we can move forward and be representative of the Democratic Party, of all, whatever, tens of millions, half a million, you know, half the country, whatever you want, whatever the way you want to describe it, we need to redirect it to . And, you know, the congressman argued that he was, until today, afraid to say it.

And God knows what will happen on my Twitter when I get home. But it starts with this kind of thing.

Yeah, I’m afraid to say it.

Yeah.

HOST: Do you think that really explains why the Democrats have been largely rejected here? I mean, insert any issue into this column, being afraid to say things about the border, about trans rights, about some of these other cultural things?

REINESS: Well, I mean, the border isn’t fair.

The border is a thorny issue that gives rise to legitimate differences of opinion. And frankly, no one had a particularly good answer to that question. And I don’t think Donald Trump will succeed on his second attempt.

As for the other cultural stuff, and I don’t even know how to refer to it without saying something, again, I’m afraid I’ll say the wrong thing, but the woke stuff, the PC police stuff.

You’ll see Republicans who say they’re afraid to say X. I’m afraid to say X. These members of Congress are afraid to say X. Why? Why be afraid to say X? You should be afraid if it’s something stupid and hateful that makes someone feel like they don’t belong.

But saying I don’t agree with you or saying it’s not representative of the majority of us is like Medicare for All isn’t something we believe in. the majority of the Democratic Party.

And yet we spend a lot of time on it.

Now, when it comes to immigration, there are people who believe, and I think I agree, that part of the problem we’ve had as Democrats is that we’ve been pulled to the left all the way. ‘at present and we cannot come together… make sensible decisions.

And look, I worked for Hillary, and she had to take on Bernie. Bernie, you know, pursued him, I shouldn’t say pursued him, he entered the primary.

There is no evidence that the Bernie Sanders wing of the Democratic Party has had any success or represents that party.

Still, we’re going to move forward and we’re going to continue every time someone on the far left says, “oh, you can’t do that, we’re going to cripple us all.”

I mean, I don’t know what the answer is, but the answer is that people start saying what they say on, you know, WhatsApp and Twitter and whatever, that it’s already enough.

People can’t…

The PC police don’t just apply to Republicans. This applies to, I don’t know what I would call myself. I would simply call myself a Democrat. I’m not progressive, I’m not left-wing. I think I’m to the right of some Republicans on some issues. But, you know, this general thing, especially parents, you know, whose kids go to school, are really bothered by it, and I understand.

I understand.

Very good, Philippe Reiness, we will monitor your Twitter all day.

I won’t, tell me…

Oh, it’s going to be on this afternoon.