In an unhinged rant on Monday night, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow expressed to her viewers that members of the Trump Administration will go to hell over an immigration policy that led to family separation for people immigrating illegally. Maddow claimed that that specific policy is what will follow these officials’ legacies to their graves.
Maddow invoked [semi]-religious language in order to condemn a policy she disagreed with:
Here's the one where, if you are a person who believes in hell, you have to think this is the one for which multiple Trump Administration officials are most likely to spend eternity in cosmic penance and damnation. This is the one that will be in the first paragraphs of the obituaries of many different people in this administration, no matter how long they live and no matter what else they do with their lives. Because they will never do anything as morally consequential as they did here.
This way of thinking is extremely dangerous, and her rhetoric is teaching MSNBC viewers that anyone that disagrees with them, deserves to burn in hell. Maddow is vicious for using this type of language to further the agenda that she deems superior. Maddow’s pure distaste for a policy, should not mean that it is okay to go on air and wish the worst on these people.
Imagine if a conservative media figure said these things about a liberal?
The family separation policy that Maddow is so upset about, actually was originally started under the Obama Administration, but since Maddow does not like Trump she puts the blame entirely on his administration.
Maddow, completely oblivious to the history of the Obama-era DHS, describes the conditions of the immigration centers, that were put in place by Obama:
Little kids, taken away from their moms and dads. Babies and toddlers and teenagers, taken from their moms and dads. And sent to live in jail-like conditions. Sleeping on the floor under space blankets by order of the federal government, in the name of us the American people.
The MSNBC host is so quick to attempt to pull emotion out of her audience, without providing the entire story. Her prerogative is to turn her audience into a bunch of Trump-haters, who believe that members of his administration belong in hell. It is disgusting for anyone to wish the worst on people, but unfortunately, this is all too familiar to Maddow and the rest of the media. One can only imagine how she feels about parents having their children aborted. Oh wait, that's not hellish. She's totally in favor of that separation.
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MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show
07/06/2020
9:40:32 PM
RACHEL MADDOW: The most damage they have done to our country and to the American experiment. Lots of competition. But here's the one. Here's the one where, if you are a person who believes in hell, you have to think this is the one for which multiple Trump Administration officials are most likely to spend eternity in cosmic penance and damnation. This is the one that will be in the first paragraphs of the obituaries of many different people in this administration, no matter how long they live and no matter what else they do with their lives. Because they will never do anything as morally consequential as they did here. And this is one thing that will never slide off of our conscience as a country. And this is something we first found out the specifics of below the fold on the front page of the New York Times on April 21st, 2018, over 700 children taken from parents at the border.
The New York Times is first to report on 700 kids had been, who had been separated by policy from their parents. After crossing the southern border, the White House had carefully guarded that number, they insisted that kids being taken away from their families that was very rare, the number was actually very low. But it turns out, it wasn’t low, it was north of 700, and it turned on out the White House had been keeping track, as of April 2018, more than 700 kids. And the contours of that story from there on out are familiar and still to this day, almost unspeakably terrible. Little kids, taken away from their moms and dads. Babies and toddlers and teenagers, taken from their moms and dads. And sent to live in jail-like conditions. Sleeping on the floor under space blankets by order of the federal government, in the name of us the American people. It was, it was an early but unspeakably ugly chapter of this administration that will never be forgotten in history.
