Comedian Andrew Schulz told podcast host Joe Rogan in an interview posted Thursday that Democrats will continue to lose elections if they do not stop talking “down” to voters.
President Donald Trump appeared on Schulz’s “Flagrant” podcast while campaigning in October. Schulz told Rogan on “The Joe Rogan Experience” that his experience with Trump was that he was “an acute listener,” asserting he feels that Democrats lack this trait that is key for political victories.
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“You gotta pay very close attention to what people are feeling. Don’t tell them what they should feel and ‘you know, better,’ and, ‘oh, we have to, you know, lead them to the water ’cause they’re too stupid to know how to find it.’ No, no, no,” Schulz said. “They are disillusioned by the medical system, and if you don’t meet them there, you’re never going to win. Ever. And I feel like that’s, at least from talking to Trump, that was something that I got from him.”
Schulz and Rogan had been talking about the positive reaction that Luigi Mangione received after allegedly killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
“It doesn’t seem like it when you see him on the news and shit, but he’s like an acute listener. Like, he listens to what people are saying, and he listens, more importantly, [to] what they’re feeling, and he can tap into those feelings,” Schulz continued, referring to Trump. “And I think that’s what people who have had a lot of success in politics were able to do. [Former President] Barack [Obama] did it. [Former President] Bill Clinton did it.”
Rogan said shortly after that Trump made a “really brilliant” move by appointing National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and FBI Director Kash Patel.
“But think about that decision, right? It’s like, those people are all echoing sentiments that the majority of Americans feel. We do not trust the food. Here’s the guy who says the food is bad. Maybe we should put him in control of the food,” Schulz said. “Kind of like a simple thing. Instead of going, ‘Well, this guy is the food doctor and we’re going to hire the food doctor because he knows what food is good for you and you guys should just shut up and listen.’ And I feel like there’s a lot of this, like, top down on the left.”
“It’s like, you can’t talk down to people. There’s this, like, Ivy League pretentiousness in the Democratic Party I feel where they’re like, ‘We know better and just, you must be stupid if you don’t agree with us.’ And it’s like, all right, well, I’m stupid,” he continued. “I’m dumb. I’m dumb then, so why doesn’t somebody meet me where I’m stupid and start at least making me feel like I’m not an asshole.”
Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton of Massachusetts went on Fox News in February to acknowledge his party is currently disconnected from most Americans on crucial issues, making arguments similar to Schulz’s.
“The point that I’ve made is that I think we need to do a lot more listening as a party. A lot of people think that you hear from Democrats and they get a lot of preaching, a lot of talking down,” Moulton said. “Sometimes we have the facts but it’s just the way that we come across that really turns people off.”
Moreover, pollster Frank Luntz asserted Thursday that Democrats are significantly “worse” communicators than Trump following their behavior at his Tuesday congressional address.
“As critical as I am of Trump’s communication, the Democrats are much worse,” Luntz said. “For them, there is no policy. There’s only opposition.”
The Democratic Party’s approval rating plunged to nearly an all-time low of 31% among registered voters, according to Quinnipiac University polling released on Jan. 29.
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