teachable moment...
’s 2008 presidential campaign manager David Plouffe said Wednesday on MSNBC’s "The ReidOut" that Republican politicians were "speaking to their sick, perverted one-third of the country," which he claimed got "injected by Fox News and Sinclair and Breitbart."
Anchor Joy Reid
...Harvard-educated lefty MSDNC (If you're white you ain't right!) commentatrix, given to fits of hyperbole, bad arithmetic, and faux sophistication...
said, "Ron DeSantis — he may be a sociopath. We don’t know what his pathology is, but he’s not stupid. I think that he understands that if he is going to inflict death on schoolchildren, he’s going to have to make it real hard for their parents to vote, right?"
Plouffe said, "So I think that there’s a third of the people out here in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, who voted for the recall. There’s a third of the people who say it should be a personal choice. Yes, the Republicans are making it harder to vote so that third has more power in general elections. But let’s make no mistake, that third or 30%, that hardcore MAGA base, they’re going to drive Republican politics."
He added, "I think these governors, legislative leaders who have stood in the way of vaccinations, who belittled COVID, who don’t want masks in school — here’s the thing, we’re basically two-thirds of the country in support of mask mandates in schools. So again, they’re speaking to their sick, perverted one-third of the country, you know that gets injected by Fox News and Sinclair and Breitbart, all the stuff. Listen, I believe today, Joy, the only country that has a worse COVID outbreak than the United States is Mongolia. So if you can’t make something of that politically as tragic as that is, maybe you don’t deserve to be in politics. I think one thing, Newsom made this campaign about COVID."