‘How Long Until They Understand?!’ Joe Scarborough Torches Democrats for Being ‘Afraid To Offend’ a ‘Small Subset of Their Base’

Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough slammed Democrats of being “afraid to offend” in failing to respond to Trump campaign ads focusing on transgender issues in key swing states and attacking Vice President Kamala Harris.

Scarborough weighed in on Thursday’s show saying that the Trump campaign’s ad push had been successful because the Harris campaign showed “some reluctance to go there” and put out something “definitive” on key issues.

There was some reluctance to go there, to talk about the things that were concerning Americans, that really mattered this year. Illegal immigration, the mass border crossings. Yes, they put a bill out there, and, yes, that was good, but there wasn’t anything more definitive on it than that. That was something that concerned hispanic voters. It’s something that concerned black voters. That is something that concerned all voters.

The host then rounded on Trump campaign ads attacking Harris over transgender issues, the subject constituting around 41 percent of its total ad output from Oct. 7 to Oct. 20, according to PBS.

There is a Financial Times article: ‘They don’t understand my life.’ ‘The Trump campaign spent millions of dollars on ads focusing on transgender issues in the final stretch of the race.’ ‘Kamala is for they/them,’ one said. ‘Trump is for you.’ Quote.

‘The ads on transgender stuff were unsettling to the people,’ said Deb Dassow, the chair of the Democratic party in Ozaukee County’ – a Republican stronghold in the Milwaukee suburbs that broke for Trump.

I mean, you don’t have to be a Republican, though I was a Republican. You don’t have to be a conservative, though I was a conservative, to understand that seeing ad after ad in NFL football games, saying that taxpayers were going to be funding transgender surgeries for inmates, it’s not something that is going to play well in Wisconsin, in Michigan, in Pennsylvania, among men.

Pivoting in his analysis to criticize the Democrats, Scarborough continued:

Yet, they didn’t respond to it because they were afraid to respond to it, because it might offend some small subset of their base. The thing is, nobody is saying to be anything but kind to all Americans. This just had to do with responding to the ad and saying: ‘Hey, wait a second, that was Donald Trump’s policy that they’re attacking.’

But they wouldn’t even do that because, again, they’re afraid to offend. Always afraid to offend. Always afraid to offend on border security. Always afraid to offend on so many other issues and they have lost working class America. The question is, how long until they understand that this isn’t just about tax cuts, this isn’t just about economics, this is about cultural markers that matter greatly in these people’s lives?

Watch above on MSNBC.