the puzzling msnbc republicans
The YouTube page at different points jams me with msnbc clips and compilations of show, which if I add to the Bulwark podcast I regularly time into leave me a bit stumped. MSNBC Republicans, turned against Trump and as such important fixtures of this Democratic Party media apparatus. But. Where are they Republicans again?
Joe Scarborough is the most puzzling figure, a definite Biden cheerleader with no reluctance. And a man who was a conservative Republican congressman from the conservative Republican Florida panhandle. And you wait and watch for him to veer something about deficits or trade, even down the list of import. The best I can suggest is he takes the true Conservative position laid out over the years on the border security and immigration, which is to say the bill Biden supports — though it is good that it is cudgel against Trump. I at long last heard him on transgender athletes — a true enough statement within a larger framework of the lack of import this really has in the grand scheme of anything. 85 percent of Americans believe makes past puberty should not be competing with females, “and if you don’t like how I phrased that, go squabble in the corner with 5 percent.” Great. How do you go ahead and codify that into law and what is keeping it from being codified.
The current faces of the Bulwark – – after the previous faces move into a semi-retirement are interesting. One a a gay man and one a day woman. Both secular in orientation. It may be that you balk at some of the identity politicking of a more queer oriented sexual minority. And they do establish themselves as having considered themselves moderate Republicans. But. I do not care if you happen to be pro-choice Republicans, by dent of working for a party and it’s presidential nominees who have had opposition to Abortion and the over-turning of Roe as part of its platform since Reagan, you would have to have some respect for people who hold to wanting legal restrictions to the practice. But, no, they slide in as religious extremists, and the particular frames of references are all from the Democratic party rhetoric. Occasionally Tim Miller alluded to Republican policies elsewhere, taking a backseat in import — but this stickler just sits there. Sarah Longwell did give one good glimpse of something interesting — sliding the figure of Bill Clinton in with sexual improprieties by way of grumbling about George Stephanopoulos as someone to be talk about Trump. And here I have a sense — come to politics at a particular point and respond to Clinton sleaze, even when policy is actually nothing much you oppose much of, and stay there for the next couple decades.
Michael Steele comes off as best in being understandably a fanned Republican, his words on Biden tinged with sarcasm and does keep button holed on policies he would logically disagree with as the rest of the Democratic voices chirp in with enthusiasm — wait to explode in the problems of Trump so he doesn’t give an air of false equivalency. But I am always going to be stuck on something with Steele, something which glared when Trump hawked sneakers for seemingly hackneyed and lazy black support. Steele had a really weird RNC chairman term, where he uncharacteristically — not seen before this or after this in his public career — adopted a stilted black “jive” lingo. Something clashes here, and I want sort acknowledgement that something weird was happening there.