Showing as a visitor on Thursday’s The ReidOut, MSNBC contributor Matthew Dowd in contrast poor Individuals who voted for Donald Trump to poor whites who defended rich slave house owners throughout the Civil Warfare. How on Earth can he state that that is “the identical factor repeating itself”?
Throughout a dialogue of the billionaires who supported Trump or are attending his inauguration, as if there weren’t additionally loads of billionaires who voted Democrat, Dowd fretted over how a lot cash they’ve: “The mixed wealth of the few hundred billionaires in America — which Elon Musk and Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos are a part of or the leaders of — have extra wealth … than the 75 million individuals who voted for Vice President Harris mixed…”
He then invoked the American Civil Warfare and poor whites who fought for the Confederacy as he continued:
And I feel it is … an unimaginable state of affairs, and the issue I see is the identical factor repeating itself from what occurred within the Civil Warfare and the aftermath the place the working class whites of the South who had nothing to learn by sustaining the system. … They obtained nothing out of the plantations. They obtained nothing out of it. However had been satisfied due to cultural type of language and division that the white working class who ought to have sided with the North on this and will have sided with extra freedom and will have sided with the freed slaves, ended up turning into a part of that type of terrible factor, and that led by civil rights and that highly effective folks — and that is my worry right this moment.
Pleasure Reid smirked all through, and commenced nodding. Dowd, who was as soon as a Republican, quickly reiterated this weird comparability of MAGA backers to slavery backers:
Again then, highly effective folks satisfied the white working class was not the — effectively, [that] the wealthy was not the enemy who had been gobbling up all the pieces — it was these cultural elites that had been the enemy of their thoughts. And it is the identical factor is going on right this moment. The highly effective persons are making an attempt to section off the white working class who’re getting no profit from this and can endure in … the Trump presidency — however the identical factor is repeating itself in our nation once more.
Reid then jumped in to agree:
Yeah, and — Amen, Amen, and I feel you are going to get an Amen from Baratunde [Thurston], too. I imply, that’s the actuality, Baratunde. We began as an oligarchy, and it was a planter class oligarchy, after which we turned a railroad and industrial magnate oligarchy. And the one hundred years during which we now have not been an oligarchy is the twentieth century, proper? … And I do assume that the best trick that the billionaire class performed was they discovered the best way to make themselves cool to working class — primarily white, however even some non-white — individuals who aspire to them.
After itemizing a number of massive enterprise house owners attending Trump’s inauguration, Reid added: “They now management the media in order that they’ll inform white working class and brown working class and black working class folks. ‘No, no, no, no, no, no. The billionaires aren’t the enemy — it is the gays, it is the trans, it is the immigrants, it is the brown folks. Do not give attention to us — give attention to them.'”
Transcript follows:
MSNBC’s The ReidOut
January 16, 2024
7:12 p.m. Jap
MATTHEW DOWD, MSNBC CONTRIBUTOR: The mixed wealth of the few hundred billionaires in America — which Elon Musk and Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos are a part of or the leaders of — have extra wealth, extra wealth than the 75 million individuals who voted for Vice President Harris mixed — the few hundred billionaires, extra wealth than 75 million individuals who voted for the Vice President mixed on this. And I feel it is unimaginable — an unimaginable state of affairs, and the issue I see is identical factor repeating itself from what occurred within the Civil Warfare and the aftermath the place the working class whites of the South who had nothing to learn by sustaining the system. Nothing — as a result of they obtained nothing out of it.
They obtained nothing out of the plantations. They obtained nothing out of it. However had been satisfied due to cultural type of language and division that the white working class who ought to have sided with the North on this and will have sided with extra freedom and will have sided with the freed slaves, ended up turning into a part of that type of terrible factor, and that led by civil rights and that highly effective folks — and that is my worry right this moment.
Again then, highly effective folks satisfied the white working class was not the — effectively, [that] the wealthy was not the enemy who had been gobbling up all the pieces — it was these cultural elites that had been the enemy of their thoughts. And it is the identical factor is going on right this moment. The highly effective persons are making an attempt to section off the white working class who’re getting no profit from this and can endure within the Trump primacy — the Trump presidency — however the identical factor is repeating itself in our nation once more.
JOY REID: Yeah, and — Amen, Amen, and I feel you are going to get an Amen from Baratunde, too. I imply, that’s the actuality, Baratunde. We began as an oligarchy, and it was a planter class oligarchy, after which we turned a railroad and industrial magnate oligarchy. And the one hundred years during which we now have not been an oligarchy is the twentieth century, proper? And never even all the twentieth century. We needed to combat the Robber barons, proper? And I do assume that the best trick that the billionaire class performed was they discovered the best way to make themselves cool to working class — primarily white, however even some non-white — individuals who aspire to them.
They usually mentioned, “No, Donald Trump is your aspiration — you will get there. I imply, he was born with $317 million, however you will get there.” And now take a look at these guys. Here is the people who find themselves going to attend the inaugural — David Sacks of OpenAI, the Uber CEO, PayPal CEO, the SpaceX CEO, Elon Musk, Amazon CEO, Meta CEO, on and on and on. They now management the media in order that they’ll inform white working class and brown working class and black working class folks. “No, no, no, no, no, no. The billionaires aren’t the enemy — it is the gays, it is the trans, it is the immigrants, it is the brown folks. Do not give attention to us — give attention to them.”
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