On Morning Joe, it has been Joe Scarborough who recurrently mounted a verbal hobbyhorse. As we have usually famous, as right here, Scarborough—imagining he is being witty or efficient—will repeat a phrase advert nauseam, operating his hobbyhorse into the bottom.
However on as we speak’s episode, it was Mika Brzezinski imitating her husband’s shtick. In a clearly canned, show-opening rant, Mika repeatedly accused Republicans of being “fascists,” generally syncopating the phrase—”fas-cists”—for further emphasis.
And in a flight of hilarious hyperbole, Mika topped the Democrat celebration “the world’s final greatest hope in opposition to fascism.”
And but, the Democratic celebration is the world’s final, greatest, hope in opposition to fascism! Towards an excessive, autocratic anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-contraception, anti-freedom assortment of fas-cists, who dominate the Trump wing of as we speak’s Republican celebration. A gaggle of fas-cists who even refuse to research the violent riots that their president launched on January sixth to overthrow a legitimately-elected president.
Why? As a result of they’re fascists! And now they’re claiming management over your our bodies, your well being, your life! And so they’ve promised they’re coming subsequent to remove your contraception capsules, and even what you do with one other consenting grownup within the privateness of your individual bed room.
Let’s get this straight: the celebration that seeks to cancel conservative voices, that stood by as post-George Floyd America was torched and looted whereas calling for the police to be defunded, that helps eliminating money bail and decriminalizing theft, that might destroy America’s borders to be able to guarantee its continued grip on energy: that is the celebration that may be a bulwark for democracy and in opposition to “fascism?”
Even Mika needed to acknowledge that the Dems are deeply flawed, suggesting that they’re “too fragile, too woke, too elitist, too disconnected from the realities of working Individuals.” She acquired that proper!
Mika signed off her spiel with a blatant electoral pitch for the Democrats, urging individuals to “register and vote. Work towards an amazing majority that may shield your physique, shield your freedoms, and simply could save our nation.”
On Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski calling the Democrat celebration “the world’s final greatest hope in opposition to fascism” was sponsored partly by GlaxoSmithKline, maker of meningitis vaccinations, and Comcast.
This is the transcript.
MSNBC
Morning Joe
6/27/22
6:05 am EDTMIKA BRZEZINSKI: I have been listening to from ladies all around the nation, and even world wide. That is devastating. And, I, you understand, they ask me what, what we will do, and I’ve acquired two phrases: please vote.
It was Winston Churchill who stated that democracy is the worst type of authorities, apart from all of the others which were tried. And the identical may be stated of the Democratic celebration at this level. Democrats one way or the other managed to get probably the most votes and lose probably the most elections. So that they want extra. Even after they win, they lose.
It could possibly be argued that as we speak’s Democrats are too weak, too fragile, too woke, too elitist, too disconnected from the realities of working Individuals.
And but, the Democratic celebration is the world’s final, greatest, hope in opposition to fascism! Towards an excessive, autocratic anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-contraception, anti-freedom assortment of fas-cists, who dominate the Trump wing of as we speak’s Republican celebration. A gaggle of fas-cists who even refuse to research the violent riots that their president launched on January sixth to overthrow a legitimately-elected president.
Why? As a result of they’re fascists! And now they’re claiming management over your our bodies, your well being, your life! And so they’ve promised they’re coming subsequent to remove your contraception capsules, and even what you do with one other consenting grownup within the privateness of your individual bed room.
To name Trump’s Republican celebration and Trump’s Supreme Court docket excessive understates the hazard that these establishments to American freedom, to our democracy. They’re fascists! Who’ve contempt for what 70% of Individuals consider about Roe v. Wade, what 90% Individuals consider about common background checks, and what you consider about your proper to manage your individual physique and your life.
So what does Donald Trump’s America appear like. Joe type of described it there. In actuality, it seems like a 13-year-old rape and incest sufferer being ordered by the state to have a compelled delivery of her rapist’s child. That is the place we’re in 2022.
And for all of the Democratic celebration’s flaws. They’re the one celebration that may stem this continued rise of fascism. Register and vote. Work towards an amazing majority that may shield your physique, shield your freedoms, and simply could save our nation.
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