One would think that after two assassination attempts in a two-month timeframe that Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferers would cool it a bit with the incendiary rhetoric, but it just wasn’t meant to be.
Twice in one week, two different MSNBC personalities have tried to normalize calls for violence against GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, with one of them outright suggesting that it should be Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris committing the violence.
On Monday, Princeton Professor Eddie Glaude was in full-blown meltdown mode on Nicolle Wallace’s “Deadline: White House” program to the extent that his fellow panelist, former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) had to step in and calm him down:
“This man is running around here busting his chops, scaring the hell out of communities, and we’re trying to figure out how to keep that middle locked in on [Vice President Kamala Harris] when she needs to bust him in his mouth,” Glaude said. “I’m saying it like that because he’s dangerous. He’s dangerous to particular people … We got to keep this troglodyte out of office because if he comes in, our babies are gonna be in danger because, remember, we know children are gonna grow up with the memory of having to not go to school for the threat of bombs, and somebody told them that their moms and dads eat cats and dogs. I’ll get myself together, Claire.”“Okay, take a minute. Deep breath,” McCaskill said.
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And on Tuesday night after the vice presidential debate, MSNBC anchor Joy Reid discussed how there were Democrats who wanted someone to “get up there and give a knuckle sandwich to Donald Trump.” While Reid herself didn’t call for it, she didn’t condemn the Democratic base’s desire for a “fist fight,” either.
The context was how she thought Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz won the vice presidential debate because he allegedly conducted himself with “civility.” Here’s what she said:
“Tim Walz was very detailed and he spoke the way a governor speaks about really specific issues like gun violence, like health care. He was substantive and knowledgeable, so if you are that person who the thing that is keeping you on the fence is you need more details, he gave you more details.”She continued, explaining that the base of the party prefers to see a brawl between the two candidates, and their preferred leader taking it directly to Trump with heavy blows.”No. 2, I don’t think that small narrow group of people wanted to see a fist fight. And so, I think that the people who want the fist fight are the base of the Democratic Party.”
“Democrats want to see someone get up there and give a knuckle sandwich to Donald Trump,” Reid also said.
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Amazingly, the same Democrats and media who told us after the 2011 assassination attempt on then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) that we needed to cool it on the use of words like “crosshairs” has been strangely silent after Glaude’s rant and Reid’s candid assessment of what the Democrat faithful would like to see happen to Trump.
Go figure.
— Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter. —
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