MSNBC guest Elie Mystal, who is the executive editor of AboveTheLaw.com, advocated for nonwhite voters to mobilize to defeat President Trump in the 2020 presidential election, saying “you do not negotiate with” with his white supporters.
Host Joy Reid had asked the panel on Sunday how someone talks to a person who is “drugged by” their support for Trump.
“You don’t communicate it to them — you beat them. You beat them,” Mystal said. “They are not a majority of this country. The majority of white people in this country are not a majority of the country. And all the people who are not fooled by this need to come together, go to the polls, go to the protests, do whatever you have to do. You do not negotiate with these people, you destroy them.”
Reid quickly clarified he meant to “destroy” Trump supporters at the voting booth, while Mystal said it was a figure of speech.
Mystal has used heated words in other appearances on MSNBC. On All In With Chris Hayes last Friday, Mystal criticized billionaire Stephen Ross for his support of Trump and called for “pitchforks and torches outside this man’s house in the Hamptons.”
