Joe Scarborough donned his Democrat-strategist sombrero on Tuesday’s Morning Joe and pleaded together with his get together of option to reject DSA lunacy now, or undergo the implications within the fall.
Scarborough opened by cueing up Shannon Bream’s alternate on Fox Information Sunday with DSA nationwide co-chair Megan Romer wherein she enthusiastically embraced this stuff within the DSA platform:
Abolishing the Senate.
Changing the presidency and the Supreme Courtroom.
Abolishing ICE.
Abolishing borders and giving amnesty to anybody presently within the US illegally.
Defunding the Pentagon.
Abolishing prisons, no less than largely.
Authorities or public possession of most giant firms.
Though objects like abolishing borders and defunding the Pentagon may stand out, let’s give attention to the plan for the federal government to grab most giant firms. That is not democratic socialism. Authorities possession of the technique of manufacturing is the essence of Marxism. So do not inform us the democratic socialists do not have a communist tint — it is proper there of their platform.
Scarborough then reached for a really drained liberal trope — Maya Angelou’s line about believing folks once they present you who they’re. He summarized the Fox quiz: “All questions answered with full conviction, and all these responses utterly disqualifying for a celebration that likes to inform folks they’re actually nearly well being care and tax reform.”
Scarborough praised progressives for bringing all of the power to the get together, however insisted Democrats can nonetheless put the problem behind them — however provided that they act now:
Should you’re for what she stated, and she or he’s the pinnacle of your get together, so you’ll be able to’t dismiss it. Are you for what the pinnacle of your get together stated? This can be a quite simple query, and the explanation I am speaking about it at the moment is as a result of Democrats can put it behind them at the moment, or we will nonetheless be speaking about this in early November. … Do not brush this off. Handle it in July, eliminate the problem in July, otherwise you’re nonetheless going to be coping with it via late October and early November. Do not be a Democrat, do not try this. Handle it now. Do not make the identical errors you made in 2024. Nip this one within the bud.
For a number who spent yesterday screaming for DNC Chair Ken Martin’s head over the get together’s empty checking account, at the moment’s efficiency was pure strategist mode: establish the vulnerability, demand the get together confront it earlier than Republicans flip it right into a cudgel, and hope the bottom listens.
Will the Democrats heed Scarborough’s warning? Or, come fall, will we be stress-free in our Barcaloungers, munching the proverbial popcorn, as we watch Dem candidates and leaders squirm in explaining away the communists of their midst?
This is the transcript.
MS NOW
Morning Joe
7/28/26
6:04 am EDTJOE SCARBOROUGH: We obtained a ton to speak, speak to him about, however I simply obtained to begin with one thing that was, throughout, social media and the information yesterday.
And earlier than we obtained all the large occasions in Washington, internationally, I wished to point out all people a notable clip from one of many Sunday reveals. A nationwide co-chair for the Democratic Socialists of America, the DSA, was on Fox Information Sunday, and right here was certainly one of her exchanges with host Shannon Bream.
SHANNON BREAM: Okay, so we’re gonna put up on the display a couple of of the issues which might be a part of your platform, and I wanna ask you, simply give me form of a real or false on these. Abolish the Senate.
MEGAN ROMER: True.
BREAM: Okay. Exchange the presidency and Supreme Courtroom as we now know them.
ROMER: Yep.
BREAM: Abolish ICE.
ROMER: Completely.
BREAM: Abolish borders and provides amnesty to anybody presently within the US
ROMER: As a long run plan, yep.
BREAM: Defund the Pentagon
ROMER: Completely.
BREAM: Abolish prisons, no less than largely.
ROMER: Yeah, once more, that as a part of a long run program, yeah.
BREAM: Okay, so no prisons. Authorities or public possession of most giant firms.
ROMER: Yeah, completely.
SCARBOROUGH: Democrats, Democrats, Democrats.
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Oh my God.
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Let these with ears hear. Maya Angelou stated, “When any person reveals you who they’re, imagine ’em the primary time.”
Folks know themselves a lot better than you do, and effectively, what’s true of individuals can be true of political events. And as you simply noticed, the nationwide co-chair of the DSA went on tv and confirmed us precisely who she is and what her get together believes.
Abolish the US Senate, the presidency as we all know it, the Supreme Courtroom as we all know it? True. Abolish ICE? Completely. Open the borders? Defund the Pentagon? Empty the prisons? Have the federal government seize non-public firms? Completely, completely, yeah, completely!
All questions answered with full conviction, and all these responses utterly disqualifying for a celebration that likes to inform folks they’re actually nearly well being care and tax reform.
. . .
JONATHAN LEMIRE: After which Mika, the opposite a part of this, after all, is that even when there truly aren’t many Democrats who imagine this, it is a present to Republicans.
Speaking like that enables Republicans to label all the get together, the GOP, like, on their heels proper now, and it is a, a life preserver, they will dangle onto. After which flip it right into a cudgel.
MIKA: Precisely. Precisely. They will use it.
SCARBOROUGH: However, however, however right here, this is the factor although, once more, For these candidates on the market that recognized themselves as DSA, that is the pinnacle of their get together. Proper?
So this is not nearly Democratic power. Sure, I, I feel Democratic power is nice. I’ve all the time stated, it is the progressives not the centrists, it is the progressives who knock on doorways, it is the progressives who do cellphone banks, it is the progressives that get out and march, it is the progressives that present the power to the Democratic Occasion.
The Democratic Occasion’s large enough to have progressives, to have moderates, to have members of the DSA get together. However these members of the DSA get together have to inform us, are you for reasonably priced well being care, are you for this, are you for what she stated?
‘Trigger for those who’re for what she stated, and she or he’s the pinnacle of your get together, so you’ll be able to’t dismiss it. Are you for what the pinnacle of your get together stated? This can be a quite simple query, and the explanation I am speaking about it at the moment is as a result of Democrats can put it behind them at the moment, or we will nonetheless be speaking about this in early November.
Did you hear what I simply stated? Do not brush this off. Handle it in July, eliminate the problem in July, otherwise you’re nonetheless going to be coping with it via late October and early November.
Do not be a Democrat, do not try this. Handle it now. Do not make the identical errors you made in 2024. Nip this one within the bud.
