MSNBC’s Joy Reid previewed Tuesday’s debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris with a wild monologue on Monday’s edition of The ReidOut. For Reid, the “badass” Harris needs to beat the “fascistic” Trump “like he stole something.” Additionally, Reid claimed, without evidence, that the Supreme Court will name Trump the winner of the election even if he loses.
In Reid’s telling of history, 2020 never happened, “And as a backup, he's counting on his big lie and embedded officials in key states who believe the big lie to simply refuse to certify the election in their states due to claims of so-called fraud by non-white voters. Throwing the election to the Republican-led House of Representatives or to John Roberts and the right-wing Supreme Court majority, both of which would absolutely name Trump as the winner regardless of the popular vote.”
She then lamented that all of Harris and Tim Walz’s alleged awesomeness would be for not:
In other words, all the joy and possibility represented by the Harris-Walz campaign isn't translating into some landslide victory for the fresh faced candidate despite how hopeful and refreshing it would be to live in a world where the American president is a badass woman who actually laughs and can talk to regular people and kids, whose running mate is a decent, normal ex-teacher and football coach who actually cares that children not be hungry and who would end, once and for, miserable experiment with ugly, cruel, bizarre, and fascistic Trumpism and prevent Project 2025 with its threats of mass deportation and concentration camps for non-white migrants, a national abortion ban, and quote, “unleashing the police” and the U.S. military on urban communities and protesters.
Rolling right along, Reid mourned, “Despite how exhausting and deadly the Trump era was, and how it devastated our lives, our psyches, our families, our economy, tens of millions of Americans, our fellow Americans, want to go back to that era. They do not want to move on. They want to go back. It makes no sense to me, and probably not to you either. But that is reality.”
It probably makes no sense to Reid because she never bothered to understand those tens of millions of voters because while ranting about badassery versus fascism may give her audience a cathartic experience, it does not make them more informed.
Again, Reid claimed Harris faces a challenge not because of her and Joe Biden’s record or because elections are naturally close, but because she’s a black woman, “Electing a woman president, let alone a non-white woman president, is going to be a fight, y'all. A huge fight. And that debate tomorrow night is a critical round in that fight. Kamala Harris has to nail it. She has to beat Donald Trump like he stole something. But beating him will not be enough. Because he's going to be graded on a curve.”
Ultimately, Reid came to the conclusion that, “When the debate is over, Democrats, independents, and pro-democracy Republicans are going to have to find and turn out every single voter they can in order to put Trumpism where it belongs, in the dustbin of history.”
Here is a transcript for the September 9 show:
MSNBC The ReidOut
9/9/2024
7:08 PM ET
JOY REID: And as a backup, he's counting on his big lie and embedded officials in key states who believe the big lie to simply refuse to certify the election in their states due to claims of so-called fraud by non-white voters. Throwing the election to the Republican-led House of Representatives or to John Roberts and the right-wing Supreme Court majority, both of which would absolutely name Trump as the winner regardless of the popular vote.
In other words, all the joy and possibility represented by the Harris-Walz campaign isn't translating into some landslide victory for the fresh faced candidate despite how hopeful and refreshing it would be to live in a world where the American president is a badass woman who actually laughs and can talk to regular people and kids, whose running mate is a decent, normal ex-teacher and football coach who actually cares that children not be hungry and who would end, once and for, miserable experiment with ugly, cruel, bizarre, and fascistic Trumpism and prevent Project 2025 with its threats of mass deportation and concentration camps for non-white migrants, a national abortion ban, and quote, “unleashing the police” and the U.S. military on urban communities and protesters.
Despite how exhausting and deadly the Trump era was, and how it devastated our lives, our psyches, our families, our economy, tens of millions of Americans, our fellow Americans, want to go back to that era. They do not want to move on. They want to go back. It makes no sense to me, and probably not to you either. But that is reality.
Electing a woman president, let alone a non-white woman president, is going to be a fight, y'all. A huge fight. And that debate tomorrow night is a critical round in that fight. Kamala Harris has to nail it. She has to beat Donald Trump like he stole something. But beating him will not be enough. Because he's going to be graded on a curve.
And when the debate is over, Democrats, independents, and pro-democracy Republicans are going to have to find and turn out every single voter they can in order to put Trumpism where it belongs, in the dustbin of history.
