On Morning Joe, it's been Joe Scarborough who regularly mounted a verbal hobbyhorse. As we've often noted, as here, Scarborough—imagining he's being witty or effective—will repeat a phrase ad nauseam, running his hobbyhorse into the ground.
But on today'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," sometimes syncopating the word—"fas-cists"—for extra emphasis.
And in a flight of hilarious hyperbole, Mika crowned the Democrat party "the world's last best hope against fascism."
And yet, the Democratic party is the world's last, best, hope against fascism! Against an extreme, autocratic anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-contraception, anti-freedom collection of fas-cists, who dominate the Trump wing of today's Republican party. A group of fas-cists who even refuse to investigate the violent riots that their president launched on January 6th to overthrow a legitimately-elected president.
Why? Because they are fascists! And now they're claiming control over your bodies, your health, your life! And they've promised they're coming next to take away your birth control pills, and even what you do with another consenting adult in the privacy of your own bedroom.
Let's get this straight: the party that seeks to cancel conservative voices, that stood by as post-George Floyd America was torched and looted while calling for the police to be defunded, that supports eliminating cash bail and decriminalizing theft, that would destroy America's borders in order to ensure its continued grip on power: that's the party that is a bulwark for democracy and against "fascism?"
Even Mika had to acknowledge that the Dems are deeply flawed, suggesting that they are "too fragile, too woke, too elitist, too disconnected from the realities of working Americans." She got that right!
Mika signed off her spiel with a blatant electoral pitch for the Democrats, urging people to "register and vote. Work toward an overwhelming majority that can protect your body, protect your freedoms, and just may save our country."
On Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski calling the Democrat party "the world's last best hope against fascism" was sponsored in part by GlaxoSmithKline, maker of meningitis vaccinations, and Comcast.
Here's the transcript.
MSNBC
Morning Joe
6/27/22
6:05 am EDTMIKA BRZEZINSKI: I've been hearing from women all over the country, and even around the world. This is devastating. And, I, you know, they ask me what, what we can do, and I've got two words: please vote.
It was Winston Churchill who said that democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others that have been tried. And the same might be said of the Democratic party at this point. Democrats somehow managed to get the most votes and lose the most elections. So they need more. Even when they win, they lose.
It could be argued that today's Democrats are too weak, too fragile, too woke, too elitist, too disconnected from the realities of working Americans.
And yet, the Democratic party is the world's last, best, hope against fascism! Against an extreme, autocratic anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-contraception, anti-freedom collection of fas-cists, who dominate the Trump wing of today's Republican party. A group of fas-cists who even refuse to investigate the violent riots that their president launched on January 6th to overthrow a legitimately-elected president.
Why? Because they are fascists! And now they're claiming control over your bodies, your health, your life! And they've promised they're coming next to take away your birth control pills, and even what you do with another consenting adult in the privacy of your own bedroom.
To call Trump's Republican party and Trump's Supreme Court extreme understates the danger that these institutions to American freedom, to our democracy. They are fascists! Who have contempt for what 70% of Americans believe about Roe v. Wade, what 90% Americans believe about universal background checks, and what you believe about your right to control your own body and your life.
So what does Donald Trump's America look like. Joe sort of described it there. In reality, it looks like a 13-year-old rape and incest victim being ordered by the state to have a forced birth of her rapist's baby. That's where we are in 2022.
And for all the Democratic party's flaws. They're the only party that can stem this continued rise of fascism. Register and vote. Work toward an overwhelming majority that can protect your body, protect your freedoms, and just may save our country.
