MSNBC: How Do We ‘Deprogram’ Millions of Racist, Violent Trump Supporters?

So this is where their 're-education camps' come in? I think they're biting off by far more than they can chew!

From NewsBusters

By Kristine Marsh

Nikole Hannah-Jones, of the NYT’s 1619 Project, appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe Tuesday, to join the panel in attacking Senators Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz, as well as the 74 million Americans who voted for President Trump this past election as evil racists akin to the KKK. Panelist Eugene Robinson from The Washington Post even demanded “millions” of Americans needed to be “deprogrammed.”

The disgusting segment began with co-host Joe Scarborough posing to Hannah Jones that Trump supporters were actually well-educated and wealthy Americans (such as these two Senators), and not blue collar rubes, as the narrative goes. This led to an obnoxious condescending sermon from Hannah Jones:

It has been a soothing narrative for us to believe that only disaffected people, only those who have some economic anxiety, only those who are too ignorant to know better would support somebody like Trump. I think we needed to believe that in a sense that intelligent people, powerful people, that thinking people, would know better.

She went on to say that there weren't enough poor whites to get Trump elected and rich white Republicans had used the poor whites to stoke violence and get their agenda across. She compared Trump supporters to the Klan and Republicans in Congress to klan-condoning white citizens councils in the South during Jim Crow:

I mentioned in the tweet thread, the white citizens councils. What those councils did, those were the most economically advantaged, most powerful citizens in the South. And they kind of pulled the strings behind the scenes. They worked up lower class white Americans. They have stoked that racial divide in order to get their larger agenda. They tried to manage the violence. I think what we saw on Wednesday is what also happened in the South during Jim Crow. 

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MSNBC political analyst and Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson loved that gross comparison and stoked the hateful rhetoric some more, asking how they could “deprogram” the “millions” who supported the President:

It’s absolutely true the differences between the white citizens councils and the Klan back, even in the days of Jim Crow. The klan was lower income, the white citizens councils were the Josh Hawleys and Ted Cruzes of their day. Here's the situation, though. We have -- there are millions of Americans, almost all white, almost all Republicans who somehow need to be deprogrammed. They’re--it's as if they are members of a cult, the Trumpist cult and they have to be deprogrammed. Do you have any idea how we start that process? [chuckling] Much less complete it?

Following this, co-host Joe Scarborough laughably claimed that tax cuts, deregulation and Trump's economic policies actually "screwed over" working class Americans and only helped the rich.

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Morning Joe

1/12/2021