Psaki, Maddow and MSNBC Panel Openly Laugh at Voters Deeming Border Crisis Most Important Issue

MSNBC’s all-star panel of hosts openly laughed at voters who see the border crisis and rise in undocumented migrants as the number one issue in this year’s election cycle.

The left-of-center cable news outlet trotted out a murderer’s row of progressive opinion television personalities including Rachel Maddow, former Biden Press Secretary Jen Psaki, Joy Reid, Nicolle Wallace and Alex Wagner.

Super Tuesday is typically a huge day politically in the four-year presidential cycle, but this year? Not so much. So panelists were left to vamp and fill time with political analysis that some might see as veering into the absurd, especially regarding what seemed a clear dismissal and ridicule of the border crisis. 

Reid opened the segment by dismissing Republican voters for simply voting on race. “They’re voting on this idea of an invasion of brown people over the border, the idea that they can’t get whatever job they want. A black person got it,” she said. “Therefore, drive all the Blacks out of the colleges. Get rid of dye. That is what they’re voting on. They’re just voting specifically on racial animus at this stage. It isn’t about economics.”

Psaki followed up by accurately explaining why former President Donald Trump effectively killed a bipartisan border bill, “because otherwise, he can’t run against the other and brown people and people who don’t look like him, like his supporters, his base of supporters coming across the border and scaring people and killing people or whatever he’s threatening out there.”

“I mean, if you look at some of these exit polls, I mean, I live in Virginia. Immigration was the number one issue, of course,” she said with shocked mockery, to which Maddow joked, “Virginia does have a border with West Virginia. They’re very contested there.” The panel erupted in laughter at the jape, which suggested how absurd they all found the border crisis to be in the eyes of so many voters.

Psaki returned to explain how shocked she was that so many Americans care about immigration and the border. “What I mean, when I was in New Hampshire, people were talking about the northern border as a threat because Trump has indoctrinated people with this fear of people who do not, like, look like them being a threat.”

Maddow tried to make sense of it all by accurately explaining the nature of political media news cycles and how they so often neatly dovetail with elections:

But as you know, I mean, and every, you know, every election cycle when there is it’s particularly when there’s a Democratic incumbent, we get reminded about the borders, and the borders become a thing again. And then if there’s a Republican in office, we don’t think about them anymore. It’s the deficit and the border. Like, you make these things an issue. You make them into boogeyman. You make them into something that grabs you from under the bed at night as soon as you wake up. As long as there’s a Democratic incumbent to blame on it, you make sure that nothing’s ever done to fix either. And then you hope that people stop talking about them once you’ve got a Republican. Same thing my entire adult life.

“The only difference now is they drop the every four years part,” Wallace chimed in. “And now I mean all the programming about cities, the spread of crime and crime…”

“And meanwhile on Earth one, the FBI reports that violent crime in America is at a 50 year low. And migrant crime is not a thing. And you live on Earth one.”

Many things can be true at once. Conservative media is consistently fear-mongering over the border and alleged “high crime,” and will regularly air violent attacks captured on smart phones to prove a larger point. Regardless, a majority of Americans are concerned about the record flow of undocumented migrants in the US Southern border under the Biden Administration.

To dismiss that concern with laughter at its apparent absurdity reveals just out of touch some left-of-center hosts are with the average American voter, and not just the average MSNBC viewer.

Watch above via MSNBC.

This is an opinion piece. The views expressed in this article are those of just the author.