Former Jill Biden spokesman Michael LaRosa said in a post on X that opposing diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives “does not make you a white supremacist.”
LaRosa was responding to a Mediatite article detailing how an MSNBC guest called President-elect Donald Trump’s Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth a white supremacist for opposing DEI in the military.
“This s*** has to stop,” LaRosa wrote. “Opposing DEI initiatives does not make you a white supremacist. Conversations and demonization like this are a big part of the reason we got our asses kicked.”
The Democratic Party has had a reckoning since Vice President Kamala Harris lost to Trump by almost 100 electoral votes. It was also the first time Trump won the popular vote in any of his three runs.
Since the election, Democrats have blamed each other in a variety of ways, with many turning their ire to President Joe Biden or toward various campaign tactics. Some say Democrats didn’t relate well enough to the working class.
“The answer to extremism is not more extremism,” he wrote. “Voices like this on the left are turning the Democratic Party into a joke. We’ve got to knock it off and get serious guests who are going to diagnose politics, not make it worse. Name-calling, vilifying, and defaming nominees you oppose, even if there is very good reason to oppose them, represents everything the Democratic Party should be RUNNING away from.”
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“Let’s fight back with a strategy and tactics … not pointless, defamatory, and juvenile invective,” LaRosa continued. “We need to get serious people opining about policy and politics, not one-upping each other or competing for who can make the most provocative insult about a Trump nominee you oppose.”
Much of the Democratic Party has also turned its ire to Trump’s first move as president-elect: choosing who to nominate to his Cabinet. Nominees such as Hegseth, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., former Rep. Matt Gaetz, and Tulsi Gabbard have drawn considerable controversy.