With the passage of the Republicans’ $1.5 trillion tax cut bill looming, most of Wednesday’s Morning Joe was devoted to portraying the legislation as not just bad policy (which would be par for the course on MSNBC), but a threat to America’s survival, prosperity, and democracy.
“Conservative” co-host Joe Scarborough, echoing the comments of former Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan, put on his Marxist cap to make the case that “the greatest threat to American-styled capitalism [is] income disparity.” Scarborough argued that the Republican tax reform effort would “add fuel to that fire” by ensuring that “the rich” continue “getting richer.” Joe even asserted that the partisanship surrounding the passage of the bill was evidence that “Western-style democracies just don’t work anymore.”