MSNBC’s Al Sharpton goes off on ‘latte liberals’ who ‘communicate for folks they do not communicate to’

MSNBC’s Al Sharpton went off on “latte liberals” on Monday who he argued “communicate for folks they do not communicate to,” and accused some Democrats of eager to “lead folks” they do not even like. 

“The complete purpose of the civil rights motion and the motion now could be to right the system, to not overthrow the system and to make issues work equally for everybody, to not simply upturn all the pieces and alter all the pieces to some undefined utopia. These are latte liberals that talk for those that they don’t communicate to, that wish to lead people who they don’t even like, are working round making an attempt to symbolize issues that was by no means a part of what we had been saying,” Sharpton mentioned. 

The MSNBC host was discussing a New York Times column written by Maureen Dowd, headlined, “Democrats and the Case of Mistaken Identity Politics.”

“All of us that had been on the forefront, and nonetheless are, of police reform, by no means mentioned defund the police,” he continued.

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Dowd wrote in her column that some members of the Democratic Party are lastly realizing that “woke is broke.”

“Democratic insiders thought folks would vote for Kamala Harris, even when they didn’t like her, to do away with Trump. But extra folks ended up voting for Trump, although many didn’t like him, as a result of they appreciated the Democratic Party much less,” she wrote. 

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough echoed her factors in the course of the present on Monday, arguing that the defund the police messaging from the far-left was damaging.

President-elect Donald Trump celebrating beating Vice President Kamala Harris within the 2024 presidential race early Wednesday morning.  (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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“Defunding the police! Back in 2020, we had been speaking right here, Rev. Al [Sharpton], let me deliver you in right here on defunding the police. You and I had been speaking about how representatives within the hardest elements of New York City, in actual time, had been saying, ‘Defund the police? No! No! We want extra police on the road defending our youngsters as we stroll to highschool. We want extra kids within the classroom, you realize, within the school rooms, extra law enforcement officials.’ Safety officers so our youngsters can go to and from class, so companies will be protected, so we will stay a protected life,” he mentioned.

Trump made historic positive aspects amongst Latino voters, particularly Latino male voters. A majority of Latino male voters supported Trump within the election, based on studies.

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“Democratic candidates have typically been avatars of elitism — Michael Dukakis, Al Gore, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton and second-term Barack Obama. The party embraced a worldview of hyper-political correctness, condescension and cancellation, and it supported variety statements for job candidates and school lounge terminology like “Latinx,” and “BIPOC” (Black, Indigenous, People of Color),” Dowd’s column learn, including, “This alienated half the nation, or extra.”