Tuesday night’s CNN NewsNight panel was equal parts amused and despondent over a cringy anti-Elon Musk protest held by Democrats in Washington, D.C. earlier in the day.
After playing a series of uninspiring clips of Democratic politicians speaking at the rally — and most notably one of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) shouting “We will win! We will win!” and “We won’t rest! We won’t rest!” over and over again, a number of panelists laughed.
Host Abby Phillip asked Gretchen Carlson to react first through her own chuckles.
“The Democrats need a real leader, ok? They need a real leader, which currently does not exist in the Democratic Party. And they have been completely flat-footed with the entire Trump presidency for the last two weeks and Elon Musk” said Carlson. “I said on CNN months ago that Elon Musk would be the most influential advisor to President Trump, and that is proving to be true whether you like it or not. But Democrats should have had a plan for this. They knew it was coming.”
Then Phillip turned to Democratic commentator Bakari Sellers.
“Bakari, are you fired up after seeing that?” she asked facetiously.
“I’m fired up and ready to go, can’t you see it in my face,” joked Sellers before expressing his disappointment in Democrats’ “lack of plan” and
“I don’t want to hear Chuck Schumer saying, ‘We won’t lose’ and ‘We won’t rest,'” he continued. “I’d rather have a small business owner up there talking about the impact on them. I’d rather have somebody who was displaced, who was a black woman, who’s worked hard to have her business out there chanting and talking about-”
“And they need to pick their targets because there is a risk here that they end up going to bat over things that Americans are like, ‘What does this have to do with me?'” interjected Phillip.
Eventually, conservative commentator Scott Jennings got to weigh in, and he did so gleefully.
“I think the highlight reel that you just played, spliced with the highlight reel of all the people trying to run the Democratic National Committee at their organizational meeting, ought to be put together,” mused Jennings. “And we ought to take money from the Republican National Committee and play it on a loop. Ladies and gentlemen: The American left is so far off the rails, they’re going to have to get Google Maps to find their way back. They’re way gone right now, and it’s glorious!”
Watch above via CNN.