Documentary filmmaker and author Michael Moore offered a slice of Thanksgiving advice Thursday: Talk to conservative family members over your holiday meal.
“By the way, at dinner tomorrow, your conservative brother-in-law, this year don’t make him sit at the kids table, let him sit at the main table,” Moore said during an interview on MSNBC. “We should be generous in victory, be kind to him, and let him know that the things that we’re going to push for he’s going to benefit from too.”
Moore made the comments while talking about the “blue wave” Democrats enjoyed in the 2018 midterm cycle, especially when candidates veered to the Left rather than playing it safer by campaigning on more conservative platforms, and the number of liberal ballot issues that were passed as part of the Nov. 6 elections.
“The three states that gave Trump the presidency — Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania — all went blue two weeks ago,” he said. “If I’m anything tonight, it’s I’m of a belief that we can take what we learned in a place like Michigan and really, really crush it in 2020. But it will take some work, and it’ll take the Democrats who got elected two weeks ago to really show the voters that they are going to do something, that they’re going to stand for something. So their performance in these two years is very important. It’s going to take a recruiting team to get beloved Americans running for office in 2020.”
Democrats flipped the House in the midterm elections, whereas Republicans bolstered their majority in the Senate.
Moore has been a vocal critic of Trump, calling him an “evil genius.” He has previously predicted that the president will win another term in office in 2020.
