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'Conservative' Scarborough Echoes the Left: 'Working Class' Shouldn't Vote GOP
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/mark-finkelstein/2020/09/11/conservative-scarborough-echoes-left-working-class-shouldnt ^

Posted on 09/11/2020 12:04:26 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

Those ignorant working-class Republicans are just too dumb to realize they should be voting for us!

That, in a nutshell, is a key Democrat kvetch when it comes to economics. Put in somewhat more academic terms, Democrats like to say that working-class Americans are "voting against their economic interests." The notion was made famous by leftist author Thomas Frank in his book, What's the Matter with Kansas? And the complaint has been echoed countless times since by a parade of progressives.

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Scarborough today also parroted that same classic leftist trope. It came in his Washington Post column that his wife Mika Brzezinski read from at length this morning. Here it is [emphasis added, and note that the final sentence is Scarborough writing in his own words, not quoting the professor]:

"As Vanderbilt history professor Jefferson Cowie wrote in The New York Times in May, “The new class war would be waged not against the old corporate robber barons but the impudent snobs of the cultural elite.” That shift may explain why so many working-class Americans have been voting against their own economic interests for so long."

Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020election; economics; joescarborough; marksinlovewithmika; presidenttrump
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1 posted on 09/11/2020 12:04:26 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: miss marmelstein; patro; abb; SE Mom; HarleyLady27; connyankee; Behind Liberal Lines; ...

Will this fraud Scarborough please stop trying to pass himself off as a “conservative.” Anyone who thinks that working people who support small-government Republicans are “voting against their interests” is, by definition, a liberal.

Ping to Liberal Media Criticism list.


2 posted on 09/11/2020 12:06:25 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Reply or FReepmail me to be added to the Liberal Media Criticism list)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

SOB never been ‘conservative’.......


3 posted on 09/11/2020 12:07:22 PM PDT by cranked
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

He actually wants to get some from Mika tonight.


4 posted on 09/11/2020 12:08:48 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Everyone should just do what you tell us. That’s the only fair system of government.


5 posted on 09/11/2020 12:08:52 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Looking at that photo, it’s obvious that Mika dresses little boy Scarborough.

A sweater, with just a “touch” of white collar is so groovy. /belch!


6 posted on 09/11/2020 12:10:01 PM PDT by Flavious_Maximus
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

‘Conservative’ Scarborough Echoes the Left: ‘Working Class’ Shouldn’t Vote GOP

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Prior to Trump, maybe you could argue that, but certainly not now. The Dems are just as responsible for out sourcing as the Republicans.


7 posted on 09/11/2020 12:10:04 PM PDT by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

They don’t have a lot of options. The Democrats openly want to exterminate them; the GOP just wishes they would quietly die off, but acts like they represent them. At least the GOP holds the line on 2A ... for now. Officially, the GOP also holds the line on abortion ... and that counts for something.


8 posted on 09/11/2020 12:10:54 PM PDT by cdcdawg (Biden has dementia.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

“Trump is destroying the Republican Party” says the prog concern troll.

Nausea...

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9 posted on 09/11/2020 12:12:32 PM PDT by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

All of today’s Robber Barons are Trump hating democrats. Every one of them.


10 posted on 09/11/2020 12:12:57 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping List)
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Comcast Joe is a jackass with a dead intern on his resume. He’s owned by the Rats.


11 posted on 09/11/2020 12:15:46 PM PDT by Gene Eric (On Don't be a statist!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

He’s closer to being Bett Midler than a Conservative.


12 posted on 09/11/2020 12:15:48 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Some of the folks around these parts have been sniffing super flu.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Mika-whipped pseudo-Conservative.
13 posted on 09/11/2020 12:19:31 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The working class should vote their self interest. And it AIN’T Antifa/BLM, which seems to be the focus of the Green New Deal Democrat Socialist party now.

Anarchy and nihilism have no place in a civilized world. America used to be civilized.


14 posted on 09/11/2020 12:22:38 PM PDT by alloysteel ("The Best Is Yet to Come "- theme of 2020 RNC)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

P-whipped Joe isn’t a conservative and neither is the GOP.


15 posted on 09/11/2020 12:22:39 PM PDT by ChuckHam
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

They can stuff what they think I “should be” voting like.


16 posted on 09/11/2020 12:22:47 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith.....)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

The most whipped man in America.


17 posted on 09/11/2020 12:24:50 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Conservative and Scarborough should never be used in the same sentence.


18 posted on 09/11/2020 12:25:03 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I watched it this morning... though Joe was going to blow a gasket. Joe’s obsessed with our President - must be something to do with late stage TDS...


19 posted on 09/11/2020 12:26:11 PM PDT by GOPJ (Black NFL players build mansions in white world to escape blacks - then kneel from guilt.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

What would you know about the working class Joe? Was Mika’s husband a working man when you were banging her? Was your wife a working woman when you cheated on her? Have you ever actually been a member of the working class?


20 posted on 09/11/2020 12:26:46 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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