Joe Scarborough Rages Against ‘Freaks, Weirdos, and Insurrectionists’ of GOP, Declares They ‘Surrendered’ to Communism
Joe Scarborough cannot believe the current state of play in the Republican party, his former party, as he sees GOP leaders rush to compare former President Donald Trump to the recently killed Russian dissident Alexei Navalny.
Navalny is thought to have been assassinated in the Siberian prison where he was held at the behest of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who was Navalny’s primary target of criticism. In the days that have followed his death, some conservative thought leaders have warned that Navalny’s “death in prison is a brutal reminder that jailing your political opponents is inhumane and a. violation of every principle of a free society.” Or so tweeted former Republican House Speaker turned Fox News contributor Newt Gingrich:
Navalnys death in prison is a brutal reminder that jailing your political opponents is inhumane and a violation of every principle of a free society. Watch the Biden Administration speak out against Putin and his jailing of his leading political opponent while Democrats in four…
— Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich) February 16, 2024
Scarborough read from a Gerard Baker column in the Wall Street Journal titled “The Moral Blindness of Putin’s Apologists on the Right,” the sub-headline of which clearly states, “They have embraced the moral equivalence that used to define the self-loathing left-wing elites.”
Scarborough then cited the mockery of other conservative thought leaders he respects, namely LA Times columnist Jonah Goldberg, before going all in his disgust with what he called ” the Trump death cult of death for American democracy.”
“You have these freaks, weirdos, insurrectionists, radicals on the far, far right,” he said. “They’re in the Trump death for American democracy. And to make those comparisons are so grotesque, to compare America to Russia is so grotesque to compare Trump to Navalny. Trump, who flies around in his 757, who lives in a golden skyscraper, who lives in Mar a Lago, when you have Navlany dead, poisoned in a penal colony. All of this is so grotesque.”
“And what is so shocking is this is one freak, legislator, right-wing freak legislator from Louisiana or Iowa,” he hammered on. “This is the next Republican nominee for president of the United States in 2024, and Republicans are falling in line, and they’re saying, ‘To hell with America. We will trash America’; we’ll say, ‘it’s just like Russia,’ just like Trump’s been doing since 2015, just to elect this con artist who wants to undermine America’s rule of law and American democracy.”
Watch above via MSNBC.
