Chris Hayes Welcomes, But Also Mocks, Rubio’s Reason for Backing Amazon Workers: ‘Whiny Victimizing Impulses’ About ‘Wokeness’

MSNBC’s Chris Hayes was encouraged Wednesday night by Marco Rubio showing support for unionizing Amazon workers, but he was a bit baffled by the reason why.

Rubio’s rationale, as he explained in a recent USA Today op-ed, is that “when the conflict is between working Americans and a company whose leadership has decided to wage culture war against working-class values, the choice is easy — I support the workers.”

He also put up a video repeatedly calling Amazon “woke” and saying, “The largest, richest company in the world and a champion of wokeness — all it does is beat up on conservatives — versus hard-working Americans who just want to get paid a little more and have better work conditions. It’s an easy choice.”

Hayes — who called on Republicans to speak up in support of those workers last month — said it’s great that Rubio is on board with this effort, but he added, “His reasoning really has to be read to be believed.”

“Rubio’s argument is, ‘Look, I don’t like unions, I don’t like union organizing campaigns… but because you corporations are defying our political and cultural sensibilities, now it’s payback time,'” Hayes continued. “Conservatives like Rubio and Tom Cotton and Tucker Carlson have officially stretched the word ‘woke’ past any coherence. They are now arguing the richest man in the world, who is fighting against paying his employees more, the historically conservative Chamber of Commerce, and the U.S. Military — yes, the U.S. military — are all bastions of wokeness.”

“And the more they act on these weird sort of whiny victimizing impulses, the more it alienates them from just larger and larger swaths of mainstream American culture.”

However, Hayes concluded by saying if this is what it takes for Rubio to support organized labor, “I guess I’ll take it.”

You can watch above, via MSNBC.