On Wednesday’s Morning Joe, NBC News national affairs analyst John Heilemann made a rare admission that Hollywood and the “mainstream media” are “largely left of center” as he countered his colleague Anand Giridharadas claiming that Democrats have not been active enough in the “cultural process” to counter President Donald Trump.
During a discussion of what Democrats have been getting wrong in trying to run against Trump and how they should change tactics for the next big elections, co-host Joe Scarborough turned to Giridharadas and posed: “They’re not running against Donald Trump in 2028. Maybe they’re running against him a little bit in 2026, but they’re not running against him in 2028, right? So, but don’t they need to figure out who they are first?”
Giridharadas began by arguing that Trump understands the importance of “emotion and psychology” in…
