going to be there for them. understood. let me ask you about the attention within the democratic party. and you sort of talked about it in your opening remarks. you say that the party should refocus c refocus on working class people, which translates to white people. on the other hand there are people that say that the democratic party needs to focus on the base and the foundation of the base is the african-american vote and african-american women in particular. square that for people who when they hear working class they hear white and think that you and the democratic party is spending a lft ti spending a lot of time focussed on people who they believe aren t coming back to the democratic party. i think it s a fascinating reality that you say working people, not working-class white people, working people, and some assume that only means white people. because that s the way it s been eely tickally defined. it should not be. who s doing the work in america?
mick wants to be the smartest guy in the room, the focus of attention. this is a guy who again has no core. he talked about well, i don t see the data that says why meals-on-wheels and the school lunch program and all of these programs for ot working class people, for the poor and for children, why they have any relevance. but at the same time when it came to this trillion dollar tax cut, he talked about the deficits and he said you know, we need new deficits in order to justify this. again, this is a person with no moral compass, knock core conviction. senator graham who you re running against used to talk about donald trump the way you do. yeah. take a look. he s a race-baiting xenophobic religious bigot. he doesn t represent my party. do you think he s a racist? absolutely not. is that a focus of your campaign or are you about moving beyond trump? it is a focus. it s not about trump that s the
convictions or values. in essence, they ve been playing a game on the people in south carolina and now the people across this country for a long time. and it s all about political power. it s all about gaming the system and becoming what lindsey graham said so poignantly is becoming relevant. and donald trump gives them relevancy because it means they can go on tv every night. they can fly on air force one. and in the end, 80s working people across this country and particularly the folks in south carolina that are at the losing end of their political game. didn t mick mulvaney run around south carolina and tell everyone had he these economic principles and they would help the people there? you can debate whether they would or not but isn t a bigger indictment that as the record shows he s chucked them all? he has. nick breet john spread who is probably one of the smartest members of congress i ve come across.
directly from the policies of this president, the deliberate policies of this president. you know, there was some passion in the immigration discussion, but it was passion disconnected from the cause of the tragedy. donnie, don t go. i ve got to go back to chris mathews who has one of the people we ve just been talking about, congressman ryan in ohio. thank you so much, brian. tim ryan, you talked in a way that the other democrats didn t tonight. you talked about working people in the not cool parts of the country, not from the coast, not from the ivy league. i thought you talked about how you can actually win an election against donald trump. yeah, get into the industrial midwest, connect the working class people, change the brand of the party away from the coast and the ivy leagues. that s not going to work for us against donald trump. if you want to win western p. a. and ohio, of course. if you want to win the senate bianca, your brand better be work for the working class. w
longest time. the donna reed days, the early days, father knows best. hardly anybody lived that way. that was the way advertisers wanted you to live. i know what just might make you feel better. me too but i bet it s a different list than what you ve got. the ideal situation is if you can subvert whatever common stuff is said about families and about parenting. what s in this? lead? oh, i got you kids new leg irons. her loudness and her unfilteredness were key to why we liked her. she was saying stuff about working class people, she was saying stuff about men and women. so it was about marriage and about raising kids and about how hard it is. great. i m just going to look like a freak. that s all. what else is new? shut up. this is why some animals eat their young. tv in the 80s was a big decade for the evolution of comedy, for the evolution of drama. it just pushed everything forward. you think perhaps this