‘Morning Joe’ host Joe Scarborough took aim at his own political allies on Monday morning in a rant blasting out of touch ‘elitist’ Democrats for blowing the election for Kamala Harris.
Scarborough’s outburst was precipitated by co-host Mika Brzezinski’s comprehensive reading of New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd’s critique of the Democratic Party’s emphasis on “identity politics,” which she contended alienated critical voter demographics and contributed to recent electoral losses.
Scarborough provided his opinion subsequent to his co-host’s conclusion of the 10-minute readout.
The host commenced by criticizing Democratic leadership for neglecting to respond to a Trump campaign ad that was broadcast in swing states.
The ad revealed that Vice President Kamala Harris supported taxpayer-funded gender transition surgeries for incarcerated individuals.
“The trans ad, which, of course, we talked about time and again. Rick Wilson showed an opposing ad – 30,000 times on the NFL, they showed Kamala Harris saying she would support the funding of transition surgery in prison and taxpayers would pay for it.” Scarborough began.
“It, of course, was the law at the time during the Trump administration. But they refused. Despite Bill Clinton and everybody saying, ‘You have to respond to this ad. It is impacting Black men, Hispanic men, white working class men. You need to respond to this ad.’ They didn’t do it.” he continued.
“There’s so many other things. We talked about it all last spring, I mean, maybe it makes you feel good when you see people trash college campuses. I know it doesn’t. But maybe it makes progressives go, ‘Oh, it’s like the ’60s all over again.’ Americans didn’t like the trashing of college campuses in the ’60s – that’s why Richard Nixon was elected twice, out of 49 states in 1972. Yeah, trashing of college campuses, can’t even send your kids to campus safely.” Scarborough added.
“You look at surveys. For white elitists who write books about white fragility and talk about how horrible the United States of America, you look at the surveys, and it shows that more Black Americans and Hispanic Americans believe in the more than dream than those people spouting those extreme positions.” he continued later in the discussion.
“Yeah, we say every day, we have a long way to go to be a more perfect union, but being an extremist and setting one party up to lose year after year, every four years, that’s no way to do it.” Scarborough concluded.
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