The dreaded day finally arrived on Tuesday as the cackling coven of ABC’s The View returned from their late-summer vacation and subjected the world to an entire show dedicated to their “Hot Topics” discussions. After falsely claiming Mar-a-Lago “wasn’t raided” and a commercial break, the radically liberal table launched into attacking Republican voters by suggesting the vast majority of them are “fascist[s],” “white supremacist[s],” and “racist[s]” just like former President Trump himself.
Near the top of the segment, co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar teamed up to mock Republicans for being offended by being called enemies of the state in President Biden’s divisive, authoritarian speech last week:
BEHAR: This MAGA crowd is so sensitive!
GOLDBERG: They’re like little snowflakes!
BEHAR: They're so sensitive. The liberals were called snowflakes.
There’s a difference between having a meltdown because someone didn’t use the pronoun you selected because of your mental illness and the president of the United States calling over 74 million people domestic terrorists threatening the country.
Self-described “Republican” co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin began her so-called “counterpoint” by saying she “agreed with the substance about his speech about democracy” and only had “a little bit of issue with him broadly applying the term ‘semi-fascist’ to Republicans.”
“I think Donald Trump is [semi-fascist], I think the vast majority of his supporters are not,” she added. “I think they are good people who want an economy that works for them, who saw more money in their paycheck under Donald Trump. And my fear is this, I think Biden wants to be a uniter, but I don't think that speech was uniting.”
With a serious attitude, co-host Sunny Hostin maligned the vast majority of Republican voters as “fascist” just like Trump:
60 to 70 percent of Republicans, I'm not saying MAGA Republicans or this Republicans – 60 to 70 percent of Republicans believe that Donald Trump is the leader of their party. And so if you are saying that he is a fascist, what are they? If you are saying he is a white supremacist, what are they? If you are saying that he is racist, what are they?
“Because if you follow someone that has hate in their heart, and I believe that he does, then you are complicit in that! And you don't get a pass on it! You do not get a pass on that!” she bitterly shouted.
Farah Griffin only offered light pushback:
I agree if it’s elected officials. I’m the first to call out elected Republicans who stoke the fascist hate, who stoke the election lies … But the average Americans, I think they are voting with their wallets. I think about people like my family. We grew up just barely middle-class they had more money under Donald Trump. They’re not paying attention to every crazy thing he says on TV because they’re working around the clock.
Co-host and pro-life hater Sara Haines refused to call them the Republican Party anymore and kept calling them the “MAGA Party.”
“But the MAGA party of 2020 and before is not the MAGA party of 2022,” she warned. “So, I think, if you're still with [Trump] now, [Biden] is not saying Republicans or conservatives, [Biden] is saying MAGA, which now has gotten even more extreme.”
And as they wrapped up the segment, Haines praised Biden for the execution of his midterm strategy. “And he's smartly playing to the independents because the independents are 41 percent of voters … He's playing a smart strategy to get that middle ground,” she suggested.
But if the President’s speech was playing well (despotic optics and all), then why did the White House have to walk back his comments the next day?
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The transcript is below, click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
September 6, 2022
11:19:46 a.m. Eastern(…)
JOY BEHAR: This MAGA crowd is so sensitive!
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: They’re like little snowflakes!
BEHAR: They're so sensitive. The liberals were called snowflakes, meanwhile, they have the nooses, they’re saying, kill Mike Pence, they're the ones with the guns going to kill congresspeople and when you say -- think about that -- they're divisive—
First of all, Joe Biden, let me remind people that he's getting bipartisan passing of veterans’ health care, infrastructure, gun safety, COVID relief, and climate change. You know, he cares about red states because a lot of red states are underwater. Look at what's happening in Mississippi right now. And even Providence. I used to live in Providence, Rhode Island, beautiful city, it’s getting problems there. So you have somebody who cares about everybody, how is that divisive?
But they will twist and he will twist everything around so everything comes back to him.
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: My only counterpoint is this: Well I agreed with the substance about his speech about democracy. And there’s polling from NBC 57 percent of Americans think the threat to democracy is one of the most important things the nation’s facing. I take a little bit of issue with him broadly applying the term semi-fascist to Republicans. Do I think--
BEHAR: To MAGA Republicans. Be specific.
FARAH GRIFFIN: Okay, that’s true. I think Donald Trump is, I think the vast majority of his supporters are not. I think they are good people who wants an economy that works for them, who saw more money in their paycheck under Donald Trump. And my fear is this, I think Biden wants to be a uniter, but I don't think that speech was uniting.
It reminds me a bit – we have him on the show later this week – Charlie Crist after he was – got the nomination to run against Governor DeSantis. He said, “I don’t want DeSantis supporters with hate in their heart.” We’ll you can interoperate that a few ways, but if you're saying all DeSantis supporters have hate in their heart, that’s not going to win people to your side.
SUNNY HOSTIN: Well, this is the problem, Alyssa: 60 to 70 percent of Republicans, I'm not saying MAGA Republicans or this Republicans – 60 to 70 percent of Republicans believe that Donald Trump is the leader of their party. And so if you are saying that he is a fascist, what are they? If you are saying he is a white supremacist, what are they? If you are saying that he is racist, what are they?
Because if you follow someone that has hate in their heart, and I believe that he does, then you are complicit in that. And you don't get a pass on it. You do not get a pass on that.
FARAH GRIFFIN: The one thing that I say, I agree if it’s elected officials. I’m the first to call out elected Republicans who stoke the fascist hate, who stoke the election lies--
HOSTIN: But you don't vote for them then.
FARAH GRIFFIN: -- but the average – You don't need to vote for them. But the average Americans, I think they are voting with their wallets. I think about people like my family. We grew up just barely middle-class they had more money under Donald Trump. They’re not paying attention to every crazy thing he says on TV—
[Crosstalk]
BEAHR: Well, wait a minute.
FARAH GRIFFIN: -- because they’re working around the clock.
BEHAR: Aren’t the – I think I read 70 percent of Republicans believe that he did not win legitimately, Biden.
HOSTIN: Yes.
FARAH GRIFFIN: Because their leaders are lying to them.
BEHAR: So, those people are under false pretenses believing something that's not true. I mean, they're watching Fox News. They’re watching Newsmax or any of those right-wing stations. They're not getting the information. So, I’ll give them a pass because –
FARAH GRIFFIN: But those are the hearts and minds Biden should be trying to win over.
SARA HAINES: But the MAGA party of 2020 and before is not the MAGA party of 2022. We watched, literally, the January 6 insurrection and a lot of people then said if there wasn't already too much there I can't deal with a president who doesn't peacefully transfer power. So, I think, if you're still with him now, he is not saying Republicans or conservatives, he is saying MAGA, which now has gotten even more extreme.
And he's smartly playing to the independents because the independents are 41 percent of voters compared to only 28 percent of Democrats and Republicans. And so if you're going for that middle ground, he just jumped nine points since July with independents. He's playing a smart strategy to get that middle ground.
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