Scarborough: Democrats Are “Too Woke To Call Out The Obvious,” “Fumbling The Football On The Two Yard Line”
In an impassioned monologue on Monday’s broadcast of “Morning Joe,” MS NOW host Joe Scarborough warned Democrats will be throwing away the midterm elections if they remain unwilling to confront the party’s left fringe and make clear that their views do not represent the party. RELATED: AOC on Francesca Hong: Woke-1.0 Was Crazy
JOE SCARBOROUGH: So listen, Jonathan Lemire, first of all, there’s no great conspiracy here. The reason why more people are talking about the DSA right now is because you have the mayor of the most important city in America who first of all has identified as DSA. He’s proven to be, I think, extremely pragmatic in many ways. And while, uh, there are a lot of people who despise, uh, how successful he’s been, his approval ratings are high, uh, murder rate, the lowest I think it’s ever been on a record, uh, the economy, we’re going to be reading something from the financial times talking about actually how New York city is thriving right now based on just about every metric. Um, but you also have people in New York city that have been saying, uh, some whacked out things. Uh, I think most mainstream voters would say they’re whacked out things when they’re talking about going to pro Hamas rallies the day after Hamas slaughtered more Jews than on any day since the Holocaust. I think 90% of Americans would think that is abhorrent. And so, you know, again, they’ll try to blur the lines going, oh, well, they just don’t support healthcare for all or, oh, no, no, we’re not saying that we just support hate speech. And, and, and, uh, but it is, it is also very important though. Why are we talking about DSA now? Because the democratic party has a choice to make. Now I said this day in and day out leading up to Kamala Harris’s election. You couldn’t watch an NFL game without seeing 300 taxpayers are going to pay for trans surgeries for convicts ads on NFL games. And even though they still pretend that did not move I think the Trump campaign spent $ 30 million on those ads and it moved working class, men, working class, white men, working class, black men, Hispanic men. It just did. And the Democrats had their head in the sand. So there was nothing wrong with the Democrats supporting economic justice. There’s nothing wrong with the Democrats supporting, uh, you know, cutting taxes are, are getting rid of the Trump taxes and making billionaires pay more in taxes. That’s legitimate. That’s a legitimate mainstream debate for people to have healthcare for all healthcare is unaffordable. That is something most Americans would agree with, but please, I don’t need people telling me, oh, you, you, you, you have to just turn a blind eye to people saying that women getting raped on October 7th, didn’t matter in the grand scheme of things that no Americans aren’t going to support that. This is not about me. This is about the Democrats. Once again, fumbling the football on the two yard line when they have a chance to make great gains, but being so woke, I don’t know if you want to call it Woke 1, Woke 2 or Woke 3, but being too woke to call out the obvious, I swear to God, it’s really, it’s crazy that we’re even having this conversation. If somebody says a woman being raped doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things, it’s okay to call that person out and demand that candidates distance themselves from those people. If you want to rule, if you want to rule over a party and win elections, if somebody says going to a rally the day after Hamas slaughters more Jews than any time since the Holocaust, it’s okay for Chuck Schumer. It’s okay for Hakeem Jeffries to call that despicable and demand that people distance themselves from that. That’s okay. So why are we bringing this up now? We’re bringing this up now because it seems an awful lot like what was happening in 2024 when Democrats couldn’t get out of their own way to win an election. They should have won.
