President-elect Donald Trump's niece, psychologist Mary Trump, took a hatchet to pundits Monday, broadly blaming Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign loss on an insufficient focus on working-class issues, an idea pushed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), or that she focused too heavily on social justice issues.
If you listen to pundits, wrote Mary Trump in her latest email blast — specifically calling out Morning Joe's Mika Brzezinski and The New York Times' Maureen Dowd — you would be under the impression "Democrats lost touch with the working class because they talked too much about transgender rights. It was Joe Biden’s fault. It was Kamala Harris’ fault. But apparently the bleak permanence of American racism and misogyny, the almost unimpeded rise of fascism, and a system so broken the Republican Party actually nominated, and America elected, an insurrectionist in direct violation of Article 3 of the 14th Amendment had nothing at all to do with the dark turn we’ve taken."
In her newsletter, she told the media to "look in the mirror."
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Mary Trump — a fierce opponent of her uncle and longtime critic of how the media has covered the 2024 race — said the media seems to have missed that Harris ran an economy-focused campaign.
"Harris' campaign was laser-focused on the working class and the policies that would most benefit them; she pushed back or deflected every single effort the media made to push her into a fight about identity politics. When Harris was asked about Donald’s offensive comments about her blackness, she called it a distraction from issues that really mattered," she continued. "The press claimed, falsely, that Harris didn’t have any policy proposals. When she unveiled them, as with her plan to expand Medicare to cover extended home-health care for the elderly (which would have helped tens of millions of Americans), she was ignored."
As all this was happening, notably, Trump came under heavy criticism from economists over his plan to enact massive new tariffs on consumer goods, which is expected to cause substantial price increases.
Rather than mainstream pundits reflecting honestly on any of this, said Mary Trump, "they waste time on their typical and tired blame-the-Democrats assessments while ignoring the underlying causes that led to this fraught and dangerous era, a fascist is putting together the most extreme cabinet in modern American history. Good job, everybody."