The extremely poor choices made by a few bad apples gave MSNBC what it had been waiting for: a feeble excuse to wail on the right. Tuesday’s Morning Joe brought on a few guests who were more than willing to censure Republican leadership for somehow allowing the inexcusable behavior to occur, and in the process suggest it was the future of the party.
This came the morning after Politico reported on racially-charged text messages written by special counsel nominee Paul Ingrassia, which included a comment from him about holding a “Nazi streak.” Senate Republicans subsequently disapproved of Ingrassia’s nomination.
Staff writer for The Atlantic, Franklin Foer, leapt at the opportunity to paint the revelation as an example of Republicans’ dirty open secret, speculating that “… surely this is the dark underbelly of MAGA that all the responsible people within who are — who have clung to the Republican establishment, to MAGA knows is there. And, you know, they will only blanch when they see these quotes.”
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