Scarborough: Obama Is The Most Significant President Since Lincoln, Would Vote For Him If He Could
By Alex Christy | March 20, 2019 2:50 PM EDT
That MSNBC Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough does not like President Trump is not exactly earth shattering news. Yet, the former Republican congressman always finds a new way to sound like a Democrat in his criticisms, including in a Wednesday Washington Post op-ed he wrote that made the show's admittedly liberal guests seem reasoned by comparison.
Co-host Mika Brzezinski began by reading an excerpt from Scarborough's op-ed entitled, I disagreed with Obama. But what Trump has done makes those differences insignificant. Brzezinski quoted Scarborough: "'Last week's slaughter of Muslims in New Zealand was allegedly committed by a fascist who claimed to draw inspiration from President Trump, among others. It was the latest in a long line of tragedies that our president failed to clearly condemn."'
It's fine if Scarborough wants to criticize Trump for one reason or another, but this line can be proven false by anyone willing to spend five seconds to do a basic Twitter search. In a March 15 tweet, Trump specifically noted the fact that the Christchurch shooter targeted Muslims by referring to "horrible massacre in the Mosques." If Trump did what Scarborough alleges, he would not have referenced the mosques.
Brzezinski then turned to the part of Scarborough's op-ed that was reminiscent of liberals during the Obama years:
That’s why any policy differences I had with Obama now seem so insignificant. Americans who still have faith in the upward arc of Martin Luther King's moral universe should be grateful for Obama's presidency and the way his election exposed the white racism that is still at large in our land. If changing the Constitution and re-electing Obama two more times would break the fever that ravages Trump's Washington I would cheerfully passage that constitutional amendment slap a “Hope and Change” sticker on my shirt and race to the nearest voting booth to support the man historians will remember at the most significant president since Abraham Lincoln.
There are plenty of conservatives who are critical of Trump, but they do so from a conservative perspective, Scarborough, sounding more like a left-wing activist, declared, "... we are going to be a non-white country, majority non-white country, because I think everything that's happening right now can be explained by that."
One of the worst habits of people like Scarborough is to behave as if history began when Trump became president. Obama won re-election, with the media's help, by saying that Mitt Romney, who is now held up by people to Trump's left as the epitome of virtue, was waging war on women in America. There was a belief among people, even those who did not vote for him, that Obama would help unite the country and move past the country's past sins on race, but instead people on the left would say that any criticism of him was because some people just didn't want to see a black man in the White House. Before Trump was tweeting in the early hours of the morning, Obama was doing interviews with people who take baths in a tub full of Fruit Loops for a living. The idea that the Obama years were marked by dignity in the Oval Office is revisionist history.
The segment started out with the liberal Darrell West of the Brookings Institute on to discuss his new book Divided Politics, Divided Nation: Hyperconflict in the Trump Era in which West explores how our politics became so divisive. The liberal West was more reasonable than the supposedly conservative Scarborough, for according to West, the country needs to look at why certain parts of the country feel bitter and left behind, which has more to do with economics than race. However, since Trump lives rent-free in Scarborough's head, he was unable to see past race in his denouncements of Trump and praise of Obama.
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