Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg criticized Democrats for the way they talk about Trump voters and Trump supporters in an interview on “The Bulwark” podcast.

FORMER SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION PETE BUTTIGIEG: So I agree on the cultural part, but just to close the loop on the money part. One thing they’re very good at is taking a problem seeing it get worse and using it, right. The more inequality there is, the better for somebody like Trump. Just like you know, the worst things are at the border, the better for somebody like Trump, politically, right? So we’ve seen that pattern again and again. But I agree on the culture part too. Look, I mean there’s uh, you know, Democrats have created this impression I think partly because of the way we feel and talk about Trump have created this impression that that translates into the way we feel and talk about people who support him. And that’s the thing that I think really is a cultural struggle in our party. There’s this sense of condescension. I mean if I hear one more time like a well-off liberal doctor or lawyer saying, you know, that quote-unquote these folks are voting against their economic interests. I just wonder whether they contemplated the fact that somebody could turn around and say so are you? There’s a condescension that is imputed to Democrats that I think we really need to deal with. So much of politics is not just how you make people feel, but how you make people feel about themselves? And so much of what they think of you comes down to what they think you think of them. And largely because of our very justified horror at the abuses of Donald Trump as a candidate and as a president, we’ve said and done things that make voters feel like we’re talking about them when we’re talking about him.

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