Former President Barack Obama took a shot and cancel culture And knocked out “buzzkill” Democrats for being caught in “policy gobbledygook.”
In a new interview with the “Pod Save America” podcast on Friday, the 44th president said Democrats have strayed from the message of equality on social issues to “scolding.”
“My family, my kids, the work that gives me satisfaction, the fun,” Obama said, “Hell, there isn’t a buzzkill. And sometimes Democrats are.”
“Sometimes people don’t want to feel like they’re walking on eggshells, and they want to admit to something that life is messy and that we can all, at some point, erroneously say, make mistakes. are,” he said.
Obama said Democrats “should be able to talk to everyone about their shared interests.”
“And I think what works for everyone is the idea of basic equal treatment and fairness. It is an argument that is conducive to progress on social issues and is conducive to economic interests,” he said.
“I think that’s where we sometimes get into trouble, which is where we try to suggest that some groups are more – because they have historically suffered more – that somehow their situation is higher than that of other people. is different and we scold people if they don’t use the exact phrase,” Obama said. “Or that identity politics theory becomes the lens through which we view our various political challenges.”
He said that Democrats, myself included, sometimes see his message confused with “policy gobbledygook.”
“Look, I used to get into trouble, as you guys well know, whenever I got a little bit of a professor and, you know, started… where would I get, you know, like that. Feels like I was giving away a bunch of policy gobbledooks,” Obama explained.
The former president said, “And it’s not that people think about these issues. They think about them in the context of the life I’m leading from day to day. How is politics, it’s about those things.” How is it even relevant to those I care about the most?”
Obama is campaigning for Democratic candidates in key states ahead of the November midterm election. He will travel to Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin this month.