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First Lady Jill Biden’s former press secretary blasted Democrats who label opponents of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) as racist this week after an MSNBC guest called President-elect Trump’s Secretary of Defense nominee a “White supremacist.”
“This s— has to stop,” Michael LaRosa, who served as the first lady’s press secretary from 2021 to 2022, posted on X in response to an MSNBC guest calling President-elect Trump’s Defense Secretary nominee and former Fox News host, Pete Hegseth, a “White supremacist” in response to his opposition to DEI policies.
“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 a–es kicked,” he continued.
“The answer to extremism is not more extremism. 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,” LaRosa continued. 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.”
MELANIA TRUMP QUESTIONS ‘WHETHER JILL’S CONCERN WAS GENUINE’ FOLLOWING TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT
Former NAACP Legal Defense Fund president Sherriln Ifill, left, and former press secretary for Jill Biden Michael LaRosa, right. (Credit; MSNBC/screenshot, Fox News/screenshot) ((Credit; MSNBC/screenshot, Fox News/screenshot) )
La Rosa explained that Democrats should “fight back with strategy and tactics” rather than “pointless, defamatory and juvenile incentive.”
“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.”
The MSNBC guest speaking on Chris Hayes’ show, Former NAACP Legal Defense Fund president Sherrilyn Ifill, drew widespread condemnation from conservatives on…
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