A prominent Democratic strategist was filmed tearing into her own party following Donald Trump’s emphatic election win Wednesday.
CNN contributor Julie Roginsky criticized onlookers and and her own colleagues during the segment – chiding them for finger-pointing instead of actually reflecting.
The argument was triggered after another on-air contributor asked Roginsky, 51, if Biden should have dropped out of the race sooner – as if that had been to blame for Trump’s big win.
Roginsky explained through a series of what she called ‘hard truths’ why she believes the Democratic Party has become increasingly out-of-touch.
Similar criticisms were waged in the wake of the election in 2016, where many counted out Trump as a credible threat – leading to an unceremonious upset of Hillary Clinton.
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‘I’m going to speak some hard truths to my friends in the Democratic Party.,’ Russian-born Roginsky began, before insisting, ‘This is not Joe Biden’s fault.
‘It’s not Kamala Harris fault,’ she continued. ‘It’s not Barack Obama’s fault. It is the fault of the Democratic Party in not knowing how to communicate effectively to voters.
‘We are not the party of common sense,’ she went on to declare – adding ‘[this] is the message that voters sent to us.
‘For a number of reasons, we don’t know how to speak to voters,’ the seasoned strategist who has also worked at CNBC proclaimed.
‘When we address Latinos… Latino voters, as Latinx, for instance – because that’s the politically correct thing to do – it makes them think that we don’t even live on the same planet,’ she argued.
The expert added how progressives caught up in this era of political correctness are afraid to tell college students ‘trashing’ campuses such measures are ‘unacceptable’, but ‘we’re so worried about alienating one or another cohort in our coalition.’
‘[Just] because you aren’t happy about some sort of policy….you’re taking over a university and you’re trashing it and preventing other students from learning,’ she asserted.
‘That is unacceptable.’
‘Normal people look at that and say, “Wait a second,”‘ she continued. ‘I send my kids to college so they can learn, not so they can burn buildings and trash lawns, right? And so on and so forth.’
She then honed in on formalities surrounding pronouns and how Americans now sign them ‘after names and say [things like] she/her’ – while airing vitriol towards those that don’t comply.
‘[This comes] as opposed to saying, you know what, if I call you by the wrong pronoun, call me out,’ Roginsky pointed out.
‘Stop with the virtue signaling and speak to people like they’re normal.
‘There is nothing that I’m going to say to Shermichael [Singleton] that I’m not going to say to you, or I’m not going to say to somebody else.
‘I speak the same language to everybody – but that’s not what Democrats do,’ she continued.
‘We constantly try to parse out different ways of speaking because our focus groups or polling shows that so-and-so appeals to such and such – that’s not how normal people think.
‘It is not common sense and we need to start being the party of common sense again.
‘Joe Biden is not responsible for that, neither is Kamala Harris,’ she concluded. ‘That is a problem that Democrats have had for years.
‘I’ve been banging the drum on this for I don’t know how – probably ten years on this.
‘We need to get back to being the party of common sense that people look at us and say we understand you.
‘Until we do that, we should stop blaming other people for our own mistakes.’
In the meantime, clips of the impromptu undressing continue to circulate, and have garnered almost one million views.
The latter assertion from the strategist – who has also offered insight as a contributor to Fox News – appeared to be in reference to the complacency that some say saw Trump win the first time around.
This year, though, his win was even more pronounced – winning seven of seven swing states, some of which went blue at the time.
Trump is now expected to decide on his cabinet, as he’s set to re-enter the White House in a few weeks.
As for Harris, she offered a concession speech late Wednesday – after calling off what many likely assumed would be a victory party the night before.