On CNN’s Monday episode of Inside Politics with Dana Bash, Susan Glasser of The New Yorker opined that, under the second Trump administration, Democratic leaders who focused on things like attempting to provide government services that their constituents actually wanted were on the wrong path. Rather, in her opinion, they should have been too busy whipping themselves up into a frenzy about a supposed “existential threat” to the American system.
Bash raised the subject of Democratic governors “try[ing] to bring back the voters the Democrats have lost,” and mentioned Governor Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, himself a liberal Democrat. She played a clip of Shapiro proudly proclaiming:
First thing I did when I was governor… I signed my first executive order, doing away with the college degree requirement for 92 percent of state government jobs. I have followed that up by increasing our vo-tech budget in high schools by 50 percent, and… 81 new apprenticeship programs… [W]e've got 12,400 new Pennsylvanians going through apprenticeships. We don't care if you're male, female, black, white- doesn't matter. We want you to have opportunity in Pennsylvania. We want to lift everybody up.