‘Sit down, shut up’: Rahm Emanuel calls out Dems as a party of ‘punks’

Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is not a fan of the current Democratic Party.

Since losing to President Donald Trump in November, the Democrats have lost their sense of identity. What do you do when the majority of your country completely rejects your party’s platform outright?

During an interview with ‘The Bulwark‘ podcast host Tim Miller, Emanuel gave his party the reality check it so desperately needs. To set up his question, Miller played back a clip of the ex-mayor from after the election.

“Here’s my view. You have a Yeti cup? You fund WBEZ, NPR? Sit down, listen, and say you’re sorry, and I include myself in the same mistakes,” adding, “If you have a Yeti cup, be quiet, sit in the corner and listen. Stop talking.”

“I have a podcast, Rahm, you gonna make me sit in the cuck chair with my Yeti cup and stop talking?” Miller chuckled.

“Yeah, I do, I say that,” Emanuel said, adding later that he believes Dems used to be a larger, more diverse party prior to being taken over by the college-educated population who are “sitting around telling everybody how to live their lives, and they were coastal, etc.”

“You guys have run this car straight into a wall,” he said of party leaders. “Sit down, shut up, and actually you have a moment to learn something. And stop telling people how to live their lives because you don’t know squat and nobody’s had the balls to tell you that, and I just did.”

But simply giving the advice wasn’t enough for Emanuel, who broke down why the party needs a total transformation.

“Now to the core question, why do Democrats have a problem? Because we’re punks, and we not only talk like punks, we talk down to people, we get caught up in a set of issues that aren’t relevant. Think about all this about transgender in sports, etc. There’s hundreds of thousands of NCAA athletes and there’s 10 transgender athletes in sports in their website. This is crazy. As I said in education, we have the worst reading scores and math scores in 30 years, and we’re arguing about bathrooms and locker rooms and not the classroom?” he said.

He also warned that Republicans are playing the left’s game now, and they’re better at it.

“If you do identity, the other side gets to do identity, and I’m going to break the news to the Democrats, the other side has more identity than you do. Just do the math.”