This week’s Liberal Media Scream features MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, who on Monday compared President Trump’s series of new rallies to the Salem witch trials and said that people will look back in horror at them in 50-100 years.
On his show, he said, “If you don’t think people aren’t going to look back at those rallies with the same horror that we now look back on the Salem witch trials, you don’t think that’s going to happen 50 years from now, 100 years from now, you are kidding yourself.”
Scarborough on Monday’s Morning Joe:
“A referendum on whether we believe our Constitution says what it says or whether we want to have a president who runs around saying that Article 2 gives him the power to do whatever he wants to do, that federal judges’ authority can be questioned, that the media is, in Josef Stalin’s words, ‘the enemy of the people,’ that there are no legitimate checks and balances against him, that the entire concept of Madisonian democracy over 240 years is for nil when it comes to him. And then, add on science. Add on medicine. Add on basic learning, and you have that versus superstition.
“This is — please. If you don’t think people aren’t going to look back at those rallies with the same horror that we now look back on the Salem witch trials, you don’t think that’s going to happen 50 years from now, a 100 years from now, you are kidding yourself. In the middle of a pandemic, long after we are all gone, people will be showing these images and asking what happened to America, or at least a large subset of America. And what happened was Donald Trump, and history and Americans in the future are going to have to grapple with that, as are those right now who are working, day in and day out, to further his agenda or the tens of the millions of people who are actually going along with this.”
Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent Baker explains our weekly pick: “Scarborough’s got quite an imagination, assuming the wider population of Americans will be as outraged by President Trump in the future as he is now. Many may consider it unwise to join large gatherings in the time of a pandemic, but President Trump isn’t forcing anyone to attend nor hanging anyone to death based on baseless fears. The analogy is silly and an example of how elite media figures make it so easy for Trump to ridicule their hostility to him.”
Rating: Four out of five screams.
