Joe Scarborough Calls On Americans to ‘Stop Gerrymandering In Your State’ to Keep Reps Like Marjorie Taylor Greene Out of Congress

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough had one idea to keep Congress from devolving into chaos like it did on Thursday night — end gerrymandering.

The morning after a House committee hearing to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for not releasing the full recording of President Joe Biden’s deposition with former Special Counsel Robert Hur, Morning Joe covered the clash that happened when Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) personally attacked Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX). Insults flew between Greene, Crockett, and Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), causing the hearing to descend into a screaming match.

Scarborough, who served in Congress from 1995 to 2001, was dismayed by the descent of the People’s House, but he had one solution — keep people like Greene from being elected in the first place:

We have absolutely nothing to add. I mean, it just speaks for itself. It’s so disgusting. It’s so sad. I was not in Congress during the Era of Good Feelings. We had impeachments, we had government shutdowns. We had Newt Gingrich against [former President] Bill Clinton. But I will tell you, even during the worst of times, even in the middle of impeachments, Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich would get on the phone and they would talk about things that were going on in the world. In one particular instance, while the impeachment was going on, they talked on the phone about Iraq and the dangers presented by Saddam Hussein. And I saw time and time again John Kasich being called terrible things, and still sitting down, patiently talking to members on the other side, Democrats doing the same thing. And so, I just, it is unfortunate.

And if you want to know what you can do to make a difference, you can figure out how to stop gerrymandering in your state because these people come, somebody like Marjorie Taylor Greene has nothing to worry about. She cast her insult out there, and 30, 40 years ago before we had computerized gerrymandered districts, there’s no way she would have been elected. There’s no way. Now, she’s in a very safe district. And so she insults somebody else, she insults a Black woman. And I guarantee you, contributions to her campaign will skyrocket.

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