Chris Matthews Critiques Democratic Party Elitism and Meritocracy
MSNBC host Chris Matthews criticized the Democratic Party for its perceived elitism and academic-based meritocracy. Matthews argued that the party has lost touch with blue-collar workers and "lowercase d" democrats who feel uninvited to the political process. He contrasted current party leaders with figures like Bobby Kennedy and Tip O'Neill, who were seen as more relatable to the common person.
chris matthews· democratic party· bobby kennedy· elitism· meritocracy
07:39 Well, where is this crisis? I'm not seeing it. It was I've seen reporting on the other Warriors game an offhanded comment Followed by a troll tweet turns into a constitutional crisis Yes There was a lot of interesting things that I picked up certainly listening to the MSNBC's Chris Matthews went on morning Joe and And he laid some smackdown on the Democrats. Did you see this by any chance? Matthews does this every so often and no I did not, but i'd be glad to listen Is there a lesson for democrats to learn about politics About public presentation about how to defeat Donald Trump that they can take from Bobby Kennedy Well ya know I think didn't Matthews write a book on Bobby Kennedy is that why he's the expert on all things Bobby Kennedy
08:29 I don't know that he did. I think he did. Well, I read the interview... I don't know that he did. I don't think he did. I'm saying that because his specialty was always Reagan and the Jimmy Carter. He worked for Jimmy Carter and then he did these Reagan and Chip O'Neill books or whatever. Chip O'Neill? I like Chip O'Neill but Tip O'Neill but I like Chip better so we'll just... Hey by the way what did you call the guy from Meet The Press Chuck Todd Todd Chuck what was his name? Todd Chuck Listen to Rudy Giuliani President's attorney former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Mr. Giuliani, welcome back to Meet the Press sir! Well, it's nice to be with you Todd. How are you? I'm okay let me start... It's okay let me start by asking... Fair enough fair enough but we won't do the last names Giuliani right? Passive-aggressive nice okay back to Matthews who wrote the book on Bobby Kennedy that was right yeah Bobby Kennedy a raging spirit about how to defeat Donald Trump that they can take from Bobby Kennedy
09:27 Well, you know I read the interview the other day. I quote her last night that this kid he was a 16 year old busboy Who held Bobby Kennedy's head up when he was shot on Romero and Juan Romero? And uh and he said when Kennedy walked into his room when he was delivering room service that Kennedy didn't look through him, but he looked at him and he said you know I thought I was 10 feet tall. And you and I knew Tip and Tip O'Neill and people like that they're real liberals. They're pie in the sky, they're always looking in the middle of distance. They think they are better than everybody else at it. They went to Yale Law or whatever and whatever they got, they claim that they are better that anybody. A true Democrat, lowercase d thinks their no better then anybody else. I've never heard that expression lower case D. Oh yeah! What does that mean? Well that means you're a democrat with capital D which means your in the party.
10:23 And a lowercase e means you're more of the nature of it. Okay, gotcha. They went to Yale Law or whatever and whatever they got they claimed they were better than anybody. A true Democrat, lower case d thinks their no better than anybody else That's what a Democrat is. And when the party regains that with white, black, Hispanic people everybody starts to think of themselves as one of them instead of being better than them they'll get back to the party of the people and they're not there yet There are too many elitisms...there is so much elitism in the Democratic Party It's so outrageous! And it all comes down to this notion of meritocracy being entirely academic based
10:59 You don't want to hear about a master plumber being an elite. He is, or she is but it's all academic and its again they've been playing with themselves in itself saluting And I'm telling you the people feel that there's a party going on and they aint invited to it That's a big part of this It's not just economics I dont buy the whole Marxist argument Its all about economics It's not all about economics It's about sensing that your leaders give a damn about you personally When that corner...I see some people like that on the Democratic Party today And, uh... but they gotta keep a low profile. You got to stay down! There's too much self-saluting Too many events that seem to be about saluting them Too many galas People are tired of it I'm sick of them By the way, I'm rooting against them Even though I agree with him He said gala? Isn't it gala?!
11:48 I prefer to say gala, but I often hear gala which i don't think is good. Gala sounds like some woman. Yes. Is gala coming? Too many galas people are tired of it and by the way I'm rooting against them even though I may agree with their policies I think there's a party attitude of elitism and I think they gotta get over it and its too much talk in the fundraisers because the people they talked on these kind shows are really the people that want money from and they're the elite yes I mean Hillary finally had a Bruce Springsteen concert last night. How about it? A little late in the game, identify with the people that the blue collar regular people identify with not the elite entertainers just my speech there are other ones but that's one and i think that something Bobby would understand and Joe Biden would understand if you have to people understand today and I think its real problem. You know during vacation