Former Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) appeared on MSNBC's “The Weekend” on Saturday and criticized the party's structure.
“We need a rebrand. I think you and I have been talking about this since 2016,” Ryan said in the highlighted clip. mediate. “For example, our brand is toxic in a lot of places, and it’s like, ‘Are you a Democrat?’ That’s what we get in Ohio.”
He joined other party leaders in saying Democrats needed a complete “reboot” after a somewhat unexpected landslide defeat in November when Republicans won three seats in the House, Senate and White House. He said he agreed with the opinion.
“We need a complete reboot. We need a complete reboot at the DNC. We need a complete rebrand. We have to reestablish our values,” Ryan said. Ta.
“What does it mean to be a Democrat? People want to trust us. They don't want to go to Donald Trump.”
But Ryan said “middle-of-the-road” voters aren't hearing enough from the party about reindustrialization and making America more competitive.
He added that his party will push for higher taxes on the wealthy while waging war on crypto leaders while alienating their supporters from their supporters.
“We have to lead growth. Another thing that I think is very important is that we can't just support redistribution. We're going to tax it and we want people to make money in America,” Ryan said.
“We're going to tax them and give them money because they're really bad people,” he said. “No, it's about growing the pie. It's about going back to Bill Clinton's camp. That's the modern Democratic campaign.”
Democrats are aiming to bounce back in the midterm elections, but first they are trying to make sense of their defeat. Vice President Harris' campaign blamed her loss in the presidential election on her failure to distance herself from President Biden's administration and inadequate media coverage, while some senators said border security They argue that it was a deciding factor for voters.
But Ryan said traditional ties were hurting the party's standing by limiting its approach to solving voters' top issues.
“The whole world knows that the American government is broken. Immigration is broken. Healthcare is broken. Education is broken. Every system we have is broken. “I'm doing it,” Ryan said furiously. “We didn’t have a government reinvention plan.”
