Joe Scarborough Warns Democratic Leaders to Call Out DSA ‘Radicals’: ‘Define Your Party’ or ‘Trump Will’

Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough warned Democratic leaders to “speak truth” to their “most extreme base” as he warned President Donald Trump would use the platform pushed by a “small faction” of democratic socialist “radicals” to “define” their whole party.

The host’s lengthy tirade came on Tuesday after he rolled back a viral clip from Fox News Sunday, when host Shannon Bream grilled Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) co-chair Megan Romer about DSA’s policy positions.

Bream listed out points from the DSA platform, which included eliminating the Senate, replacing the Supreme Court, defunding the Pentagon, granting amnesty to illegal aliens currently in the U.S., abolishing prisons and public seizure of large corporations.

Romer confirmed cheerily throughout that she supported those points as part of the organization’s long-term goals.

After rolling back the moment on MS NOW on Tuesday, Scarborough unloaded on the DSA: “Democrats, Democrats. Democrats, let those with ears hear.”

He continued: “[Writer] Maya Angelou said, when somebody shows you who they are, believe them the first time. People know themselves much better than you do. And, well, what’s true of people is also true of political parties. And as you just saw, the national co-chair of the DSA went on television and showed us exactly who she is and what her party believes.”

Scarborough relayed what had happened in the clip again, adding: “All questions answered with complete conviction. And all those responses completely disqualifying for a party that likes to tell people they’re really just about health care and tax reform.”

The host said he had “no problem with debate” on key issues, but warned, “there’s a difference between pushing your party to be better and asking it to abandon every single thing that makes it worth belonging to.”

Reaching back into history, Scarborough praised the Democratic Party for having “pushed back against the lawlessness of January 6th” and “rose up and fought back against Americans and immigrants being gunned down in American streets.” He said that the party had defended “basic American values and the Constitution.”

Going even further, he retold how previous Democratic presidents had passed historically progressive legislation on civil rights and pushed back on “anti-democracy forces”

“But being that party defends democracy also demands condemning a party that calls to abolish the U.S. Senate, the House, the presidency and the Supreme Court, wants to release murderers and rapists from jail,” he said.

“Come on! Democrats have always believed you can love your country while pushing it toward being that more perfect union. And you can do that without wanting to burn it to the ground,” Scarborough appealed.

He continued: “If Democrats want to make America more affordable, more fair, and more free, and I think they do, they better speak truth to its most extreme base, or they’re going to let a small faction of radicals drive more people toward Donald Trump.”

Appealing to Democratic leaders directly, he concluded: “Because, Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, every other Democrat in Washington, D.C., make no mistake of it, if you don’t define your party today, Donald Trump will be sure to define it in November!”

Watch above via MS NOW.

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