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Michelle Obama told a Brooklyn Academy of Music audience that “you all are lying. You’re not ready for a woman. You are not,” and doubled down that “we’ve got a lot of growing up to do” when asked about running for president while promoting her new book, The Look. The former first lady explicitly cited last year’s defeat of Kamala Harris as proof America isn’t ready, and she urged people not to entertain thoughts of her candidacy. The remark was unmistakably dismissive of voters and set off immediate discussion about elitism from both sides of the aisle.
Megyn Kelly didn’t let the soundbite go unanswered, playing the clip on her show and ripping into the smugness behind the line. Kelly called out Michelle’s patronizing tone and accused her of being unable to laugh at herself, arguing that lecturing everyday Americans while wrapped in celebrity privilege only deepens the divide. The reaction was raw and pointed—exactly what conservatives have been saying for years about the left’s habit of condemning voters rather than competing for them.
The irony of Michelle Obama’s lecture is hard to miss: a woman who has been fawned over by legacy media and graced countless magazine covers now tells Americans they’re immature for the choices they made. Critics on the right rightly see this as the same elitist worldview that treats voters as the problem instead of the party’s policy failures and messaging disasters. The disconnect between celebrity status and real-world accountability is exactly why many Americans tune out the high-handed takes from coastal elites.
Michelle pointed to Kamala Harris’s loss to President Trump in 2024 as proof that the country still won’t accept female leadership, but that explanation rings hollow when you look at the Democrats’ record of nominating unpopular candidates and radical policy platforms. Voters punished the party for abandoning the concerns of working Americans, not simply because of gender. Pretending the issue is voters’ emotional maturity rather than Democratic malpractice is both cowardly and condescending.
Megyn has been sounding the alarm that Democrats keep looking for scapegoats—memes, media bias, or the electorate—rather than doing the hard work of rebuilding trust with the middle class. Her on-air take was a necessary boot to the backside of a party that prefers blame to reform, and she’s absolutely right to demand honesty. If Democrats want to win back working Americans, they must stop the patronizing lectures and actually address inflation, crime, and the border.
Americans who get up, go to work, and build families don’t need moral lessons from millionaire pundits and fashion books; they need leaders who respect their choices and fight for opportunities. The arrogance of telling millions of voters to “grow up” after they judged the policies and messaging of the last cycle is a surefire way to alienate the very people Democrats claim to represent. Conservative commentators like Megyn are right to call this out—because respect is earned, not demanded from a stage.
If Michelle Obama wants to weigh in on the future of the country, she can start by stopping the condescension and embracing the reality that voters are not the problem—bad ideas and limp leadership are. Megyn Kelly’s blunt response was a reminder that Americans will not be lectured into submission; they will be courted and convinced, or they will vote the other way. Patriotic, common-sense leadership wins hearts and elections, and anybody who forgets that deserves to be called out.
