Monday’s edition of Morning Joe was mostly another January 6 Committee repeat yet again, including the usual grievances towards every person on the right—regardless of how civil of an American they are. New York Times editorial board member, and radical lefty Mara Gay decided to take a cheap shot at the GOP and right-wing media specifically by pulling a pathetic lefty favorite: the race card.
Before playing the card, she whined that everything going on in politics is all Trump’s fault, especially the “idea that the entire system is rigged, as you said, against the little guy.”
Outside the D.C. bubble, she’d see that her words are an easy claim to refute considering how hard it is for “the little guy” financially at the moment, all thanks to poor policies recently put in place by the Biden administration.
She continued her thoughts by talking about how American democracy “has expanded to include different people, including non-white Americans,” which she hyperbolically suggested the right had a problem with.
She then tried to suggest right-wing media was the sources of racist animosity and hatred towards a representative system of government. “And I think, unfortunately, the right-wing media has been all too quick to—to blame non-white Americans, to blame democratic institutions, and it's essentially—you know, ‘if we don't control it, well then let's burn the whole thing down,’” she said.
Speaking of burning down the system when you don’t get your way, has she heard of the left-wing domestic terrorist group Antifa or perhaps Black Lives Matter or every other left-wing tantrum-throwing group?
She added that for these people, “it is about power” and that they are “more interested in having power than democracy. If they can't have power through the democracy, they'd rather not have the democracy.”
Labeling it as “scary,” Gay pushed her warped caricature of the right-wing thinking: “as long as we're in control, it doesn't matter, the democratic institutions don't matter, democracy doesn't matter, forget it all.”
Again, unreasonable and extreme to say. Rational Americans acknowledge that there are crazies on both sides, and that it’s important to agree to disagree when it comes to different opinions. It is easy to tell how left on the spectrum Gay is.
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MSNBC’s Morning Joe
July 25, 2022
7:11:19 a.m. Eastern(…)
MARA GAY: As somebody—I who used to work at the Wall Street Journal. And it was really a – as a former employee, former reporter there is was really nice them kind of strike one for democracy.
JEREMY PETERS: Yeah and you know this stuff doesn’t just happen on accident.
GAY: It doesn't just happen. It's a very top-down organization. But I would say, to your point, Eddie [Glaude], I think the difference, right, is just this sense of grievance that we're seeing in that larger right-wing mega-sphere.
And I think that—you know, that was stoked by Trump, obviously, over the past six years, and this idea that the entire system is rigged, as you said, against the little guy. And I think as we see American democracy has expanded to include different people, including non-white Americans, that, along with a changing economy and stressors on the middle class, have really combined to create this combustive environment in which, you know, you're looking for somebody—for some explanation for what you're seeing around you.
And I think, unfortunately, the right-wing media has been all too quick to—to blame non-white Americans, to blame democratic institutions, and it's essentially—you know, “if we don't control it, well then let's burn the whole thing down.” And that's what this is, this is about power, and so there are some people in America who are more interested in having power than democracy. If they can't have power through the democracy, they'd rather not have the democracy.
And so there is a divide between those, like the New York Post, apparently, it’s great to see, the Wall Street Journal who are saying, “no, we still want that democracy.” And those who say, “you know what, let's just—let’s just—as long as we're in control, it doesn't matter, the democratic institutions don't matter, democracy doesn't matter, forget it all.” And that’s scary.
JONATHAN LEMIRE: And certainly fed into the erosion of trust into those institutions by the American public.
