Joe Scarborough is a recovering Republican and a testament to what a good woman can do, as Mika seems to have set Joe straight.

Though we have heard plenty that Morning Joe helped Trump rise from obscurity, whatever merit that claim may have had (every network did it) it means very little now when considering the fact that few in the media have been as direct and biting when it comes to criticism of Trump.

Joe was at it again in the Washington Post with an article stating that Trump’s racism will be what brings down the Republican party this fall. He begins by noting just the latest racist episode. As summarized by Rawstory:

“When CBS News’s Weijia Jiang asked Trump about his misleading testing comments, the president blurted out: ‘You should ask China,’” Scarborough writes. “After Trump’s snarling China comment, CNN’s Kaitlan Collins pressed Trump until he abruptly retreated from the presidential podium.”

Joe noted that Republicans used to condemn these types of attacks, such as when Trump attacked the “Mexican judge” – the one from Indiana who happened to be Hispanic.

“Four years later, Trump’s Republican Party has become numbed to its party leader’s daily outrages — the racist attacks, the 18,000 lies (and counting), the petty insults, the breaches of constitutional norms, and the gross incompetence that has worsened the covid-19 crisis in the United States and has driven America to the edge of a depression,” he writes.

And then he just lays it out. That Republicans will receive the worst shellacking at the polls since 2008 – when Obama won, and the Democrats won 60 seats in the Senate and controlled the House.

I am not so sure. If we knew the election would be fair, I’d have near no doubt. But I have a lot of doubt about whether we’ll see a fair election. Regardless, Scarborough is right – all the polls show that Trump is tanking the Republican party and his racism is getting more extreme, turning off more people.

Which is fitting.

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Peace, y’all

Jason

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