A number of liberal media commentators have lashed out at President-elect Donald Trump’s supporters in current days, because the yr winds down and as Biden prepares to exit the White Home.Â
“It’s an inevitability that the hyperpopulist, non-college-educated a part of Trump’s base, which is the plurality on the minimal, a majority if you happen to make sure arguments, have been at all times going to be preconditioned to imagine that the phrase immigrant or visa, at all times of their minds means brown individuals unhealthy,” Lincoln Mission founder Rick Wilson stated, earlier than occurring to mock Trump supporters, throughout an look on MSNBC.
Wilson was responding to differing opinions amongst Republicans with regard to the H1-B visa program for expert employees, which Trump acknowledged he has used at his properties.Â
“They’ve this perception that the man with the GED and his faux Oakley sun shades and his goatee and his pickup truck, the common Twitter bro, that you just see in each avatar on Twitter, that man is pondering to himself, ‘Oh I might have been the senior software program designer at Google if it weren’t for DEI or immigration.’ It’s absurd,” Wilson stated.
A bunch of liberal commentators have lashed out at Trump’s supported in current days, as he ready to formally assume the title of president once more. (Left: Screenshot/MSNBC , Heart: (Picture by Rebecca Noble/Getty Photographs), Proper: (Picture by Paras Griffin/Getty Photographs), Proper: (Screenshot/92NY))
Washington Put up columnist Jennifer Rubin, ex-CNN reporter Don Lemon and MSNBC political analyst Eddie Claude Jr. additionally took goal on the president-elect’s supporters and motion.Â
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Rubin urged that Trump supporters could not learn throughout an occasion on the 92NY Heart for Tradition & Arts on Dec. 15, when she spoke with anti-Trump critic George Conway in regards to the aftermath of the 2024 election.
“Folks ask me on a regular basis, why is the media so mamsy-pamsey? And there are two explanations,” Rubin started. “The one is, they’re satisfied that if they might simply transfer a bit bit to the fitting, all these MAGA readers on the market — now, you’ll discover the contradiction in phrases, ‘MAGA readers’ — would choose up The Washington Put up, and they’d have extra readers. What’s the logical fallacy right here? Sure, ‘reader.’ And there’s nothing that The Washington Put up might probably do that might have these individuals take out a subscription. However I’m satisfied they’re in there someplace.”
Rubin additionally wrote a column, revealed Dec. 23, for the Put up that suggested towards reaching out to the opposite facet to search out widespread floor, particularly with Trump allies and supporters.
Lemon referred to as supporters of Trump “dumb f—ing idiots” and mocked their “silly MAGA mind,” throughout an episode of the Don Lemon Present.Â
Don Lemon seems on CNN on Wednesday, March 13, 2024. (CNN screenshot)
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“You are so f—ing silly and also you deserve it. You f—ing deserve it since you’re so dumb,” he stated. “Sure, I’m gloating over your stupidity.”
He stated MAGA supporters have been a part of a cult, and requested, “How silly and dumb are you?”
MSNBC’s Claude made the argument on Monday that hatred, selfishness and greed have been a necessary a part of Trump’s motion.
“So this can be a actually necessary level, proper? Within the sense that you just’ve at all times had these three parts and Ronald Reagan was capable of stability them in attention-grabbing types of the way. And so we’ve got right here is the plutocrat, proper, in Elon Musk, proper? Greed, you realize, pulling, type of advancing his pursuits, and you’ve got right-wing populism, right-wing populism that generally is expressed when it comes to an emphasis within the American employee, nevertheless it takes the type of xenophobia, it takes the type of nativism, it takes the type of hatred,” Claude stated, claiming the three parts of the trendy Republican Social gathering are corporatists, libertarians and nativists.
MSNBC political analyst Eddie Claude Jr. argued on Monday that hatred, greed and selfishness have been on the middle of Donald Trump’s motion. (Screenshot/MSNBC)
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MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace emphatically agreed with Claude throughout the dialog on her present on Monday and argued that understanding Trumpism was important to beating it.Â
“So we’ve got the collision of greed and hatred proper in entrance of us and that’s on the coronary heart of Trumpism, of MAGAism. It’s at all times been greed, at all times been egocentric, it’s at all times been hatred and now it’s in full, full view,” Claude stated.
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President Biden additionally referred to Trump supporters as rubbish throughout a Zoom marketing campaign name for Vice President Kamala Harris in late October, although the White Home and the president himself tried to stroll it again.
