Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan said Tuesday on MSNBC's “Morning Joe” that the Democratic Party is no longer the party of “the little guys.”
“I think the Democratic Party was seen as three things. One, it was the little guy's party. It was the party of no one. A party that took care of the unprotected in America,” Noonan said. Second, it was a party with extravagant spending. You know, they didn't have very tight purse strings. They thought they could make up for it in the end. I was thinking, 60. From the '70s, they were an anti-war party, Joe, and it seems to me that they ceded that territory to what is now the Republican Party, the Trump Party, the Republican Party, we're the little guy. We're a party of generous spending. You think you can spend money. Hold on to your beer. Yes, we're an anti-war party.”
Furthermore, she added: “If the Democratic Party relied on those three pillars, midgets, anti-war, generous spending, that’s all gone, and now they’re not the party of midgets, they’re the party of academic administrators at Brown University, and They look like they're more activist in the world, but they're spending as much as the Republicans. They've lost their pillars, which means they need to rebuild those pillars or find new ones. ”
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