During a wild post-election broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” co-host Joe Scarborough commented on what he described as “white elitist” voters in the Democratic Party who pushed the party into “insanity” and made it utterly unelectable in the 2024 election, quite helping Trump win his landslide victory.
Beginning by weighing in on the matter of what happened in the election and how important and large-scale the issue of Democratic Party wacky leftism is, Scarborough told co-host Mika Brzezinski, “We could talk about this for four hours. I’m looking at this, and it’s stuff we’ve talked on this show about.”
Then, turning to his more specific commentary on what was happening, Scarborough noted that Kamala never responded to a Trump campaign ad noting that she supported taxpayer-funded gender transition surgeries for prisoners, a hugely impactful ad on many voters given how starkly it put the matter in perspective.
He said, commenting on it, “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.”
He continued, “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.”
And, commenting on the matter of college campus activism since the Israel-Hamas War began in October of 2023, Scarborough said, “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.”
He added, on that subject, “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.”
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And, slamming the push to defund the police, he said, “Defunding the police! Back in 2020, we were talking here, Reverend Al [Sharpton], let me bring you in here on defunding the police. You and I were talking about how representatives in the toughest parts of New York City, in real time, were saying, ‘Defund the police? No! No! We need more police on the street protecting our children as we walk to school. We need more children in the classroom, you know, in the classrooms, more police officers.’ Safety officers so our children can go to and from class, so businesses can be safe, so we can live a safe life.”
Then, getting to his point about “white elists” in the party who are torpedoing its electoral chances, Scarborough said, “I just want to say, this is what we’ve known since 2017, that white elitists that run the Democratic Party are far to the left of many Black and Hispanic voters in the Democratic Party.”
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