MSNBC often doesn’t resemble a channel offering “news.” It seems to exist for ideological reinforcement. It’s for Democrats who think other Democrats are going soft on Trump now that he’s unquestionably won an election, in the popular vote. On Thursday’s All In show, MSNBC host Chris Hayes was upset with the current Democrat posture, where they're not throwing "threat to democracy" warnings at all times.
“We ran on this January 6 thing and the preservation of democracy, and it didn’t work, so what are you gonna do? It’s kind of like, ‘Let’s not talk about it again,' and I personally think that’s a mistake, both politically and substantively.”
MSNBC analyst Alexi McCammond hammered on the F word – “fascist.”
On MSNBC, Chris Hayes and Alexi McCammond complain that the Democrats have gone all soft on accusing Trump of being a "fascist" threat to democracy.
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Let's not look "retroactively disingenuous." They prefer actively disingenuous. pic.twitter.com/LRx3nclxzd
McCAMMOND: Yeah, I mean, I feel it's completely out of touch with reality. I don't know how they go from calling the guy a fascist to outlining point by point his threats to democracy and all the crazy things he has said and the violence, the political violence that has been behind a lot of the rhetoric that he has spoken, that his allies have spoken and it’s like, the election happens and it's like, never mind, we were just kidding. We’re gonna go talk to him and allow him to be president.
It's objectionably soft to "allow him to be president"? Excuse me, Democrat-shamer, he was democratically elected. She complained that Democrats don’t have a plan for the first 100 days of Trump, warning them about all the Project 2025 proposals that will be circulating. That’s standard opposition-party stuff, but then she turned back to the “existential threat” talk:
McCAMMOND: They should be continuing to talk about the existential threats that are actually much more real now arguably than they were during the campaign. And so it is mind blowing, and makes Democrats seem like they are not telling the truth when they don't continue keeping up with this narrative and really the facts of what is happening and who's coming back into office.
Hayes agreed: "That's a good point. If you sort of abandon it after Election Day, it seems like you’re retroactively disingenuous, when in fact what you were saying was true. It not working politically is true to a certain extent, but if Democrats think they can leave this in the past, Jennifer, Trump is not going to let them."
He's going to pardon many January 6 defendants, and he's going to go after members of the January 6 committee. You can't just end it by saying truce: "Truce on January 6, truce on the fact that you tried to bring down the constitutional republic, that he will then move on."
Former Republican official and Lincoln Project co-founder Jennifer Horn agreed it was "the worst thing they could possibly do" because only the Democrats have the influence "to go after the goal of preserving democracy in this country. The Republicans have abandoned that ship."
