Her show might get chaotic, especially when Scott Jennings is invited onto the panel to slap down liberal narratives with ease. Former guest Ryan Girdusky was another top assassin of liberal narratives on Abby Phillip’s show before being banned for telling Medhi Hassan, a known terrorist sympathizer, that he hoped his beeper didn’t go off—a funny reference to Israel’s operation that planted explosives in the pagers of Hezbollah operatives. Hassan had insinuated that Girdusky was a neo-Nazi before, but it was Girdusky who got the Themistocles treatment.
Yet, despite Phillip’s obvious political leanings, she knows what’s eating away at Democrats. She made these points known during an event for Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics on November 19. It’s not some secret—it’s the party becoming too cloistered in their ivory towers, clinging to their higher education degrees while wallowing in a sea of confirmation bias and overall condescension. The activist class has engulfed the party. It has led to a regime of groupthink, where challenging its ethos is met with swift vengeance:
Abby Phillip describes the Democrat party as a group of elites who fall prey to groupthink because they lack confident voices who disagree effectively:
Abby Phillip: "I have observed that elites increasingly talk only to each other and come to believe that because there is… pic.twitter.com/bv8tqYVJe6— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) November 19, 2024
I have observed that elites increasingly talk only to each other and come to believe that because there is consensus among them that that consensus is shared broadly and there are not enough voices that are confident enough to disagree and to present alternatives. We as a society need to find better ways to uplift divergent voices.
Otherwise, we will be victims of groupthink. And there is a there…there is an activist class. And this is particularly acute in the Democratic Party right now. There is an activist class in the Democratic Party that is multiracial, multiethnic. It is diverse, but it’s an activist class. And so because of that, they don’t they’re not able to see outside of that. […]
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