‘Failure Of Leadership’: Ro Khanna Slams His Own Party For Having No Strategy Besides Hoping Republicans Lose

Democratic California Rep. Ro Khanna stated Monday that the “failure of leadership” inside of the Democratic Party has resulted in members having no plan to regain voters’ support besides hoping that Republicans “self-destruct.”

Khanna said on “The Young Turks” that the only strategy currently being utilized by Democratic leadership is to hope that President Donald Trump’s administration will “go too far” and cause the Democratic Party to “win by default.” The congressman also said the party has not outlined any plan to help struggling, working class Americans who were “justifiably angry” during the 2024 election.

“I think their plan is the plan Democrats have gone through time and again, which is to point out, which is true, that a lot of these cuts are going to deeply hurt people … Fine, so we get back the House, maybe we even win the presidency by default, what is our vision?” Khanna said. “Is our vision to just to continue to try to win by default because go too far and then not have a governing majority in the House or the Senate where we actually are able to address the legitimate anger of working class Americans of all races? Or are we going to try to do something meaningful with the power we will be handed? And that to me is a failure of leadership in the Democratic Party. We are just being tactical, we’re hoping that they self-destruct.”

“Fortunately, they’re self-destructing, but there’s not enough focus, as says, on a concrete vision going forward to solve the massive inequality and to understand that many people who voted for Trump were not just angry, they were justifiably angry,” Khanna continued.

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