A New York Democrat warns that labeling voters of color as white supremacists could push them closer to Trump's camp.

Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y., cautioned against vilifying voters of color as white supremacists, stating that it would only drive them further towards President-elect Trump.

According to Torres' post on X, popular explanations for the election outcome include white supremacy, patriarchy, and misogyny.

The statement is clear: vilifying voters of color as white supremacists will not bring them back to the Democratic Party. Instead, it will push them further into Trump's camp. The goal of politics is to attract, not repel. Condescension is the most potent repellent in politics. Voters feel deeply about condescension and will punish you for it at the polls.

On Tuesday, Vice President Kamala Harris was soundly defeated by President Trump in the 2024 White House race.

Torres has suggested that signs of the impending drubbing were clear.

"We were blind to the signs of a decisive defeat, either in denial or substituting magical thinking for actual analysis," he declared in a tweet.

No precedent exists in recent history for an incumbent party winning a presidential election when the percentage of Americans who believe the country is moving in the right direction is in the 20s. The structural challenge was too great to overcome.

Since 2021, Torres has been a member of the House of Representatives and won re-election in 2024. During this time, he has accused the "far left" of driving people away from the Democratic Party.

The far left has become Donald Trump's closest ally, as it has successfully driven away significant numbers of Latinos, Blacks, Asians, and Jews from the Democratic Party through absurdities such as "Defund the Police," "From the River to the Sea," and "Latinx."

Politically, pandering to the far left, which is more aligned with Twitter, Twitch, and TikTok than the real world, has more to lose than to gain. The working class is not swayed by the ivory-towered nonsense that the far left is peddling.

The lawmaker has proposed that his political party should not claim they have a "messaging problem."

We should remove the phrase 'messaging problem' from our vocabulary," Torres wrote on X. "When over 70% of Americans believe we are on the wrong track or heading in the wrong direction, that is not a messaging issue. That is a reality problem.

"Ignoring the real-world messages sent by inflation and immigration is at our own peril, as these realities contributed to widespread discontent that led to Donald Trump's presidency," he warned.