Biggest Loser Reid Uses Discount Rack Author To Attack The GOP- What A JOKE!
Joy Reid and some unknown author on MSNBC bash the GOP movement 'America First'. They had the audacity to suggest that putting America first meant putting democracy last. What a joke! It's clear the host is scraping the bottom of the barrel for guests. To top it off, they were promoting Matthew Dowd's books - which happen to sell for a mere $10 or $3 for 'gently used'.
Reid was furious that Republicans didn't enthusiastically greet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's visit to a joint session of Congress. She looked to Dowd to have someone agree with her and the author was happy to ablige saying, "When Republicans say America first, which is what they constantly kinda try to say. What they really mean is democracy last."
He added, "that's really what they mean when they say America first. It's not about our principles anymore and the narrative and common story that all of us have shared about a constitution and the will of the people and a government by and for the people. It is about an ability to push through whatever you want by whatever means necessary in this."
Dowd had worked as a strategist for former President George W. Bush before leaving the party to pursue a failed political career as a Democrat before getting a job as a political analyst.
Dowds claimed that Republicans are now, “in sync now with Vladimir Putin who espouses basically the exact same things which is I’m gonna hold power for power’s sake and it doesn’t matter who I run over or what I do or what country I invade.”
He came to the conclusion that Ronald Reagan would be embarrassed of current Republicans, which was a huge leap. If anything, the'modern' Republican is closer to Reagan than previous generations. Reagan developed the term "Let's Make America Great Again," and his programs were centered on efforts that put America first.
Transcript
MATTHEW DOWD: Again, I think it's a fundamental thing. When Republicans say America first, which is what they constantly kinda try to say. What they really mean is democracy last. That's really what they mean when they say America first. It's not about our principles anymore and the narrative and common story that all of us have shared about a constitution and the will of the people and a government by and for the people. It is about an ability to push through whatever you want by whatever means necessary in this.
And so it doesn't surprise me that they’re in sync now with Vladimir Putin who espouses basically the exact same things which is I’m gonna hold power for power’s sake and it doesn’t matter who I run over or what I do or what country I invade. If I can get what I want, that’s what I want. That's what the Republican Party has become. It’s the least of which it's not anything close to the last two Bushes, but it's a party that they used to claim Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan would be shocked at what’s going on.
JOY REID: And he’d be run out of the party. He’d be considered a RINO.
DOWD: He couldn’t join—If Ronald Reagan ran today in the Republican nomination, Ronald Reagan would probably finish fifth or sixth in a Republican primary.
REID: 100 percent. Easily. Easily.