On CNN’s Monday episode of Inside Politics with Dana Bash, the host raised the subject of Democratic governors “try[ing] to bring back the voters the Democrats have lost,” and mentioned Governor Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, himself a liberal Democrat.
But Susan Glasser of The New Yorker opined that, under the second Trump administration, Democratic leaders who focused on things like attempting to provide government services that their constituents actually wanted were on the wrong path. Rather, in her opinion, they should have been too busy whipping themselves up into a frenzy about a supposed “existential threat” to the American system under Trump and Musk.
Bash played a clip of Shapiro proudly proclaiming his appeals to the working class to Bill Maher:
JOSH SHAPIRO: First thing I did when I was governor, literally after taking…
