Morning Joe takes vicious swipe at Kamala Harris election loss and tells viewers ‘woke is broke’

The hosts of MSNBC’s Morning Joe finally admitted that the Democratic establishment is responsible for Kamala Harris’s loss to Donald Trump. They used another media personality’s elimination from the party to acknowledge that ‘woke is broke’.

During Monday’s show, hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough piggybacked on Maureen Dowd’s Saturday column in The New York Times“Democrats and the Case of False Identity Politics,” in which the entire piece is read on air.

“We’ve had a lot of calls about this piece and it’s an interesting message for Democrats,” Brzezinski said. “It has highlighted how some Democrats are waking up and realizing woke is broke.”

The recognition marks a major turnaround for Scarborough, who just days ago attacked “racist Hispanics” and “sexist black men” for not supporting Harris.

He also underestimated how much inflation helped Trump win another term, as the millionaire host was baffled that butter can cost as much as $7 at the grocery store.

Scarborough and Brzezinski did not blame Harris herself for her defeat.

Dowd’s overarching point in her column was that Democrats were embracing political correctness, alienating Americans at a time when they fear their freedom of speech is being eroded.

Trump, Dowd wrote, addressed these fears.

“The party embraced a worldview of hyperpolitical correctness, condescension, and cancellation, and supported diversity statements for applicants and faculty lounge terminology such as “Latinx” and “BIPOC” (Black, Indigenous, People of Color),” Dowd wrote. .

She continued: “This alienated half the country, or more. And the chaos and anti-Semitism on many university campuses certainly did not contribute to that.’

James Carville, the longtime Democratic strategist who helped deliver Bill Clinton to the White House in 1992, has long lambasted the party for its commitment to “identitarianism.”

He praised Harris for not addressing her gender and ethnicity, but said it was too little, too late.

“We could never wash away the stench of it,” he said, referring to identity politics. ‘It’s like smoke getting on your clothes and you having to wash them over and over again. Now people run from it, like the devil runs from holy water.”

Dowd argued that Trump did not make his supporters feel like they were walking on eggshells.

“Donald Trump played on the irritation of many Americans who were disgusted by being perceived as insensitive for talking the way they always talked,” she wrote.

The piece also delved into the views of white progressives, who are arguably further to the left of “the minorities they defend,” Scarborough said.

Trump made significant gains among the black and Latino communities, while also getting a majority of white women to vote for him.

According to an October Financial times In the piece Dowd references, 75 percent of people who identify as white progressives believe that “racism is built into our society.”

Only 62 percent of black Americans and 38 percent of Hispanics agreed.

And on immigration, one of Trump’s stronger issues, nearly half of Black and Hispanic Americans supported a tougher approach to border security.

Only 15 percent of white progressives said the administration should strengthen enforcement at the southern border.

Immigration was routinely ranked as one of voters’ top issues, and Trump repeatedly hammered Harris over the way the Biden administration was allowing millions of migrants into the US.

Dowd said Harris moved to the center after turning left in the 2020 Democratic primary, a contest she ultimately dropped out of.

For example, she was no longer in favor of decriminalizing border crossings, as she had been four years earlier.

“We have laws that must be followed and enforced that address and target people who cross our border illegally, and there must be consequences,” Harris said in August during her first major television interview as a Democratic candidate.

She also flipped out on fracking after a clip of her saying she supported banning the controversial practice went viral at the height of the campaign season.

‘I’m not going to ban fracking. “I did not ban fracking as Vice President of the United States and in fact I was the tie-breaking vote on the Inflation Reduction Act, which opened up new leases for fracking,” Harris said in her only debate with Trump.

According to Dowd, transgender issues were another negative for Harris’ campaign, even though she did not often mention transgender people or trans girls and women participating in women’s sports.

“Democrats learned the hard way in this election that mothers care about abortion rights and that their daughters can compete fairly and safely on the playing field,” Dowd wrote.

Many Republicans across the country spent tens of millions of dollars on ads talking about the issue, with one TV spot warning, “Crazy liberal Kamala is for them/them.” President Trump is for you.”

Rep. Seth Moulton, a Massachusetts Democrat who ran unopposed, said the party needs a rebrand on trans issues.

“Democrats spend way too much time trying to not offend anyone,” Moulton said after the election. ‘I have two little girls. “I don’t want them to be run over on a playing field by a male or former male athlete, but as a Democrat I should be afraid to say that.”

Democratic Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, who narrowly retained her seat in a red congressional district in Washington, said the party needs a major overhaul.

“There is no strange trick that can save the Democratic Party,” she told The Times. “It’s parents of young children, people in rural communities, people from the professions who put themselves forward and are taken seriously.”

Dowd also claimed that Harris had the same air of elitism that many thought former Democratic presidential candidates Michael Dukakis, Al Gore, John Kerry and Hillary Clinton had when they were candidates.

An anonymous Democratic lawmaker told Dowd that Harris had made the “colossal mistake” of “running a billion-dollar campaign with celebrities like Beyoncé, while many of the struggling, working-class voters she wanted couldn’t even afford to buy a ticket.” could afford Beyoncé’s concert. minus a down payment on a home.”

Many of the same celebrities showed up to campaign with Clinton and Harris eight years apart, including Beyoncé and Bruce Springsteen.

Both women suffered similar defeats from Trump in the Electoral College vote.

Clinton won the popular vote with 2.9 million votes, while Harris is likely to lose it by more than 3.5 million votes.