President Donald Trump received some surprise praise from the grandson of the late Former President John F. Kennedy.
Despite being a Democratic congressional candidate, Jack Schlossberg recognizes the impact that Trump has had on politics, throwing his own party for a loop. It was long believed that Democrats had an unshakable hold on the minority and youth voting blocs, but the president “flipped the script” with his campaigns and brought young people into the Republican fold.
During a Fortune CEO Initiative dinner, the candidate commended Trump for being able to get previously disconnected citizens “fired up.”
“I disagree with President Trump a lot,” he said, before crediting him with “getting people fired up about politics.” He also urged his own party to learn from the way Trump “poached” young men from the left.
“I think that they’re not stupid, those young men, and I give President Trump a lot of credit for being able to influence new meeting environments and make politics accessible,” he said.
Keep in mind, these words are coming from someone who previously made videos for former President Joe Biden’s campaign until he quit after going “down to Wilmington” and hearing “no” repeatedly.
“Anyway, long story short, I quit the campaign because I thought if I don’t do this my way, I’m not going to be able to live with myself. A month later, I got a call from the campaign being like, ‘Hey, can you come back and make videos for us?’” he revealed.
As Democrats search for a party identity that resonates with the American people, Schlossberg believes he understands why the right has been so successful.
“The Republican Party has embraced modernity in a way that the Democratic Party used to own. Whether it’s space, whether it’s the AI race, crypto, investing in new technologies — the Democratic Party has been way anti-everything, and anti-business in particular. Anti-modernity. Trump has flipped the script,” he explained.
But Schlossberg believes that being perceived as the curmudgeonly party is the biggest reason for their lack of success, not their policies.
“I don’t think that’s because we all of a sudden lost our way on policy. I think we’ve mainly been out in terms of reaching young people and telling them a story about what we’re for, not just being a reactionary party.”
Ultimately, he also had some words of caution about Trump, lest he be lumped in with aisle-crossing Democrats like Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pennsylvania.
“Whether you support the president or not, I think he succeeds when people can’t really believe in anything the government is saying. We can’t even necessarily believe what he says on a given basis,” he said, adding that just saying what Trump doesn’t know what he’s doing is good for Democrats because “that’s too simplistic a view.”
“He’s not giving us confidence in our ability to solve the problems of the future, and I think we really have too many problems that we’re not paying attention to right now that we need to solve.”
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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