Stephen A. Smith

You forgot about what got you here. Black folks got you here. Hispanics got you here. The working class got you here. The most egregious thing that you could say about the Democratic Party right now is that the Republican Party seems to be more identifiable with the working class than the Democrats.

You forgot about what got you here. Black folks got you here. Hispanics got you here. The working class got you here. The most egregious thing that you could say about the Democratic Party right now is that the Republican Party seems to be more identifiable with the working class than the Democrats.

Who would have ever thought in our wildest dreams that anybody would be able to get away with saying that? Remember, a lot of times people that are in the know, that are highly, highly knowledgeable about the intricacies that involve politics, they lean on that. They keep forgetting the voters don't know what they know. The voters live on perception.

Who would have ever thought in our wildest dreams that anybody would be able to get away with saying that? Remember, a lot of times people that are in the know, that are highly, highly knowledgeable about the intricacies that involve politics, they lean on that. They keep forgetting the voters don't know what they know. The voters live on perception.

Whatever issue touches them is what touches them. And that decides who they're going to vote for or whether they'll vote at all. And a lot of people don't get that. I laugh when... When folks try to challenge my knowledge of the intricacies of politics, I'm like, you're clearly not listening. I tell you all the time, I don't study it like that. I read the newspaper. I watch news.

Whatever issue touches them is what touches them. And that decides who they're going to vote for or whether they'll vote at all. And a lot of people don't get that. I laugh when... When folks try to challenge my knowledge of the intricacies of politics, I'm like, you're clearly not listening. I tell you all the time, I don't study it like that. I read the newspaper. I watch news.

I'm a conscientious observer, but I'm not entrenched in it the way somebody that lives it every day would be. But I'm an American citizen and I'm a voter. And I'm watching what's going on in the streets of America. And I'm telling you, certain things ain't going to work.

I'm a conscientious observer, but I'm not entrenched in it the way somebody that lives it every day would be. But I'm an American citizen and I'm a voter. And I'm watching what's going on in the streets of America. And I'm telling you, certain things ain't going to work.

When you looked at the Democratic Party, certainly there's probably policies that they pushed forth and battles that they have fought that would have benefited working class Americans. But that ain't what they were talking about. They were talking about LGBTQ. They were talking about transgender rights specifically.

When you looked at the Democratic Party, certainly there's probably policies that they pushed forth and battles that they have fought that would have benefited working class Americans. But that ain't what they were talking about. They were talking about LGBTQ. They were talking about transgender rights specifically.

They were acting as if there was no problem at the borders involving illegal immigration. Nobody was believing that because if you travel, if you see footage of the streets of America, you're like, what's going on? It wasn't just Fox News. It was everybody, ABC, NBC, CBS.

They were acting as if there was no problem at the borders involving illegal immigration. Nobody was believing that because if you travel, if you see footage of the streets of America, you're like, what's going on? It wasn't just Fox News. It was everybody, ABC, NBC, CBS.

Everybody was talking about the border when it was crimes in the streets and people were being let out the same day that they were getting arrested. But everybody was talking about that when you had stores that were allowing three people in it at a time because they were afraid they were going to get robbed and the repercussions weren't severe enough.

Everybody was talking about the border when it was crimes in the streets and people were being let out the same day that they were getting arrested. But everybody was talking about that when you had stores that were allowing three people in it at a time because they were afraid they were going to get robbed and the repercussions weren't severe enough.

So there was a level of fearlessness that the lawless in our communities were, you know, that they possessed. People were talking about that and. The Democrats were talking about something else. And so when you look at it from that standpoint, you just say to yourself, they really, really forgot.

So there was a level of fearlessness that the lawless in our communities were, you know, that they possessed. People were talking about that and. The Democrats were talking about something else. And so when you look at it from that standpoint, you just say to yourself, they really, really forgot.

They forgot what got them here, what made them so popular, what got Clinton in office, what got Barack Obama in office. Hell, to some degree, what got Jimmy Carter in office before Reagan arrived. They forgot all of these things.

They forgot what got them here, what made them so popular, what got Clinton in office, what got Barack Obama in office. Hell, to some degree, what got Jimmy Carter in office before Reagan arrived. They forgot all of these things.

To forget that against Donald Trump, of all people, who's claiming elections are rigged, who's calling y'all crooks, who are saying that y'all are nasty, evil people, questioning how duplicitous you can be, how corrupt you can be, even while he's getting impeached, even while he's being convicted of felonies, all of this stuff. And y'all just ignored it. Not you.

To forget that against Donald Trump, of all people, who's claiming elections are rigged, who's calling y'all crooks, who are saying that y'all are nasty, evil people, questioning how duplicitous you can be, how corrupt you can be, even while he's getting impeached, even while he's being convicted of felonies, all of this stuff. And y'all just ignored it. Not you.