Joy Reid Slams ‘Tax Cut’ Hungry Pro-Trump Gen X Voters For Abandoning ‘Struggling’ Younger Voters: My Generation ‘Did This!’

MSNBC host Joy Reid slammed Generation X voters who grew up on “Hulk Hogan” and WWE for having “condemned” younger voters “struggling” most economically to now fight after the demographic coming out majority for President-elect Donald Trump.

Reid delivered her take after watching Vice President Kamala Harris’s concession speech on Wednesday after having lost the election to Trump. In the speech Harris called on Democratic voters “not despair” but to continue the work.

I will note, she said that because it was young people who supported her the most strongly. It was 18 to 19-year-olds who gave her 55 to 46 a victory. If it was just the young, if it was just the people who will inherit this country, she would have won. If it was just millennials, 51-46, the people who right now are struggling to, you know, buy a home and afford their lives and really have the biggest economic struggles, because let’s be clear, it’s not the people who delivered trump, which is Generation X, my generation. They got a little coin in the bank. They just want I tax cut. They are not the people who are struggling.

It is the people Claire described are those millennials, like my kids. I have a Z and I have millennials. They can’t afford their lives. We still have to help them. They’re trying and they are striving. That’s the people who are struggling. They took a chance on [Harris]. They had the faith in the future to say that this black and Asian woman could lead this country. That’s why we need to bet on the young.

My generation, Generation X, the people who grew up on WWE and Hulk Hogan and Donald Trump did this. They looked in the face of someone who said I want to be a dictator on day one. We did. We did this to our kids. Our elders, our seniors, 65 plus, 50-49 in her favor. So they washed either way. But our generation has to really take a long hard look because we’re not the people struggling that Claire described.

It’s the young people we’ve now condemned to mass deportation, that we’ve now condemned to fight for reproductive freedom and reproductive rights. It’s not us.

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