Liberal activist and filmmaker Michael Moore is raising his voice again.
But this time, the outspoken Moore is directing his ire at his fellow Democrats.
In an interview with The Guardian, Moore warned Democrats not to fumble their chances of beating former President Trump in November’s presidential election now that Vice President Kamala Harris heads the ticket.
“This isn’t just a sugar-high or what [recovering] heroin addicts call a pink cloud,” Moore told the U.K. publication. “It was so depressing for so many weeks and then it was instantly not depressing. I am hopeful now but it’s ours to blow – and we have a history of blowing it.”
Unusual take. But, Moore correctly predicted this false sense of optimism before.
Moore previously warned Democrats of Trump beating Hillary Clinton in his 2016 movie “in Trumpland” where he said Trump’s message appealed to disenfranchised voters in Michigan and other battleground states.
In 2020, he took to X and said that enthusiasm for Trump was “off the charts” and pleaded with Democrats to come together to defeat the incumbent.
It’s a hot take from Moore to boldly criticize his own party. And predictably, his contrarian view of the Democratic Party was short lived.
Moore went on to say that he’s happy Harris chose Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate and that he’s confident Harris can inflict serious damage on Trump when they debate next month.
“Once anybody gets under that thin skin anything can happen,” Moore said. “On live TV? Trump could explode, start talking like a 12-year-old, though no offense to 12-year-olds, or get up and leave.”
‘I understand why people are nervous it might be a sugar high but Harris and Walz are people of substance. They’re being slow and cautious enough to get it together. It’s just been a couple of weeks. They are going to have to tell us what they’re going to do and hopefully come up with the right thing. And there will be mistakes.”
Moore continued by insisted that to beat Trump is for Democrats to continue doing “weird and cringe until the debate and then nail him.”
“But nail him with irony, satire and a simple way to point out the beyond weird absolute idiocy and insanity of what these two men are talking about. Reach them on a commonsense level so it doesn’t matter if you’re Democrat or Republican.”
Will Democrats listen to Moore? Time will tell as the party heads into the Democratic National Convention this week.