LIVING THE SMUG LIFE:  Dem. Sen. Mazie Hirono: Dems Have Trouble Connecting To Voters Because They ‘Tell Everyone How Smart We Are.’

Hirono gained notoriety during the Brett Kavanaugh saga for saying that men should simply shut up when it comes to allegations of sexual misconduct.

“I’ve been saying it at all of our Senate Democratic retreats, that we need to speak to the heart not in a manipulative way, not in a way that brings forth everybody’s fears and resentments but truly to speak to the hearts so that people know that we’re actually on their side,” she continued. “But we have a really hard time doing that and one of the reasons it was told to me at one of our retreats was that we Democrats know so much, that is true. And we have kind of have to tell everyone how smart we are and so we have a tendency to be very left brain.”

She’s right — Democratic candidates in all 57 states have made that mistake.

Related: Michelle Obama Tells a Secret: “I have been at probably every powerful table that you can think of, I have worked at nonprofits, I have been at foundations, I have worked in corporations, served on corporate boards, I have been at G-summits, I have sat in at the U.N.: They are not that smart.” 

What a way to trash your husband, his administration, its transnational enablers at the UN, and its corporate and media boosters. But then, speaking of the latter, as Ben Rhodes confirmed, “They literally know nothing.”