Joe Scarborough Asks How To ‘Reach’ MAGA Voters In ‘Post-Trump World’: They ‘Didn’t Go To Civics Class’ or ‘Learn the Basics of the Constitution’

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough asked on Tuesday what happens to MAGA voters in a scenario where former President Donald Trump loses, accusing those voters of being ignorant on the Constitution and basic civics.

On Tuesday’s Morning Joe, Scarborough rattled off a number of controversial quotes by Trump to emphasize his argument that Trump voters may be difficult to “reach” in a “post-Trump world” while laying out a scenario where Trump loses the election.

Scarborough said:

“Even in that best-case scenario for the Harris people and what you’re talking about here, we still have an electorate, 70 million-plus, that will be voting for a man who said he was going to assassinate for treason the chairman of the joint chiefs because he didn’t support him on January the 6th, who said in recent days he was going to execute Liz Cheney with a firing squad, nine guns pointed and shooting at her face, a man who said he was going to CBS because he didn’t like how they edited an interview, a man who said he’d be a dictator from day one, a man who said he’d terminate the constitution, a man who said he was going to use the Army, and he was going to use the National Guard on his political opponents. I could — I literally could go on all day and yet you talk to Trump voters and they go, he didn’t say that.”

Trump previously accused Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley of “treason,” noting the punishment once would have been “death.” He also did say he would be a dictator for one day, but later claimed he was joking.

On Liz Cheney, Trump’s comments were condemned by Vice President Kamala Harris and others, but he and others have argued Trump was calling out Cheney as a war hawk and painting a scenario where she was forced to fight the wars she’s supported. He’s denied calling for an assassination and even vocal critics like Bill Maher have blasted the media for taking Trump’s words out of context, arguing his statement was badly-worded, but essentially the same sentiment once pushed by “hippies” in anti-war speeches.

Trump said about Cheney:

“Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, ok? Let’s see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face. You know, they’re all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, ‘Oh, gee, let’s send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy.’

But she’s a stupid person, and I used to have, I’d have meetings with a lot of people, and she always wanted to go to war with people. So whether it’s her, whether it’s-, I was surprised a little bit with Dick Cheney. I didn’t know him at all. I only had essentially the one or two phone calls, and it was only a call saying, ‘Thank you very much for doing that for Scooter Libby, that was nice.’”

Scarborough accused MAGA of a “sort of Russian embrace of disinformation.”

“There is a sort of Russian embrace of disinformation, a radical devaluing of truth over the last 9 to 10 years and a complete ignorance on civics and what the term Madisonian democracy even means, what checks and balances even means, what judicial review even means, what the rule of law even means,” Scarborough said. “How do we as a nation even post-Trump, how do we reach those Americans who apparently didn’t go to civics class, apparently didn’t learn the basics of this Constitution, and have just been overwhelmed with disinformation over the past nine years?”

Historian and presidential biographer Jon Meacham argued that the American public is “on trial” in this election, but pointed to civil rights movements as “inspiring” in the face of a Trump victory.

“We are on trial. Donald Trump is not the only person on the ballot. We are. The American citizenry is on the ballot,” he said.

He added, “Washington said in the farewell address, a republic cannot endure in the absence of religious and moral principle. It is not just about the letter of the law. It is about the spirit of the law. And enough of us, and this is precedented, enough of us have to decide that we’re willing to lose a round in order to keep a larger experiment going.”

Watch above via MSNBC.