MSNBC’s The ReidOut host Joy Reid had one of her most vile meltdowns since September 2021 when she claimed conservatives “love Covid so much” that they “want it everywhere” to murder as many people as possible, and drink it in a “Kool-Aid cup.” As bad as that was, Monday night’s Reid meltdown was a whole nother level of evil. Reid opened her show claiming Republicans “clearly don't give a damn if they or their friends die a painful, gruesome death at the hands of an assault rifle.”
Later on in her demonic, hate-filled program, Reid brought on turncoat former Republican consultant Matthew Dowd to kvetch about how Texas Republican governor Greg Abbott was considering a pardon of a Texas police officer who was wrongly convicted of killing a Black Lives Matter terrorist who pointed a rifle in his face.
While discussing that issue, Reid proclaimed Republicans “seemed to have gotten back into lynching, hanging, all sorts of other draconian 19th-Century fare.”
Turning to Dowd, Reid asked “what is going on with Republicans that they seem to be bringing back the lynching vibe?”
Dowd lashed out as well and went to the reliable liberal talking point that what Abbott was doing “is another attack on our democracy.”
He claimed that people “think attacks on our democracy are only like taking away somebody's vote or what happened on January 6. This is an attack of a jury, which is in our constitution in the Seventh Amendment, the right to jury trial, that basically takes the power of citizens away to hold anybody accountable.”
When Dowd was finished, Reid doubled down and insisted “fascism has many features” and “one of them is this sort of lust to be able to harm or kill your political opponents and it feels like across the board on the right, there is this kind of sort of lust for that.”
Republicans, Reid claimed “need to be able to not let [their] political opponents vote, but also to hurt them or worse.”
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MSNBC’s The ReidOut
4/10/2023
7:06:28 p.m. EasternJOY REID: Who clearly don't give a damn if they or their friends die a painful, gruesome death at the hands of an assault rifle.
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7:38:19 p.m. Eastern
REID: This feels like a pattern to me. You have Republicans in multiple states including Florida passing and pushing laws that will allow people to hit Black Lives Matter protesters or any protesters they like with their cars. This was after the Charlottesville murder by car of a white woman who was a Black Lives Matter protester. They seemed to have gotten back into lynching, hanging, all sorts of other draconian 19th-Century fare. What is going on with Republicans that they seem to be bringing back the lynching vibe?
MATTHEW DOWD: Well, I mean, I would be surprised if this was an African American who shot somebody in Austin, Texas, that the governor of Texas would be weighing in saying this person’s not guilty and should be pardoned. As a matter of fact, he's never done it, for anybody, except this guy. Who as you laid out, a unanimous jury, a jury of citizens of Travis County, unanimously found the guy guilty, which as you know for a police officer, is very difficult. So the evidence was overwhelming against this guy to me, this is all -- it all is integrated. This is another attack on our democracy, and I don't think people fully understand what that means. They think attacks on our democracy are only like taking away somebody's vote or what happened on January 6.
This is an attack of a jury, which is in our constitution in the Seventh Amendment, the right to jury trial, that basically takes the power of citizens away to hold anybody accountable. That's what a jury is. It's an integral part of our democracy. The founders put it in our constitution, and the governor of Texas instigated, as you know, by Tucker Carlson and Kyle Rittenhouse, who weighed in on this as well, who also weighed in on this as well, decided that he knows better than 12 average folks sitting in Austin, Texas, to make this decision. Again, it's another attack on our democracy.
REID: You know, and right, and fascism has many features. And one of them is this sort of lust to be able to harm or kill your political opponents and it feels like across the board on the right, there is this kind of sort of lust for that, right? For we need to be able to not let our political opponents vote, but also to hurt them or worse.
