NYT’s Lisa Lerer: Sen. Warren’s Fox News Argument ‘Dangerously Close to Deplorables’

‘You don’t want to sort of vilify people’

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LERER: "Well there is this big debate as you alluded in the Democratic Party about whether or not to go on Fox at all. Elizabeth Warren, the Democratic National Committee say it’s not something Democrats should do because by going on Fox, Democrats are just helping this network that vilifies them every day nonstop make money. And then you have the flip side, which is Senator Bernie Sanders, you know, Mayor Buttigieg, saying we need to reach people where they are. And there is some concern with the Warren argument that it tip toes dangerously close to deplorables, that phrase that got Hillary Clinton in so much trouble during the last election, so you don’t want to sort of vilify people, even if you’re trying to vilify the network. I mean, frankly, it’s hard for me to imagine that that many reliable Democratic primary voters are avid Fox News watchers. It seems like a cross over demographic that doesn’t happen. So, I think what he’s is trying to do is send a message about the kind of campaign he would run and particularly in the general election that he would be willing to reach out to everybody, and trying to, without losing the support of a liberal base that really wants Democrats to just demagogue box."

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