Meacham Rues Trump-Inspired Anti-Democratic Right Wing

Brent Baker | April 10, 2023
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Spurred by Republicans in the Tennessee House voting to expel two Democrats who violated House rules with a disruptive protest on the floor of the chamber, Jon Meacham went on MSNBC on Monday morning to denounce the supposed “anti-democratic” moves which he attributed to Donald Trump’s nefarious influence on Republicans.

“It’s a reminder that what Trump has represented, which is this showmanship, this ‘we’re going to own the libs,’ is actually of enormous real world consequence,” Meacham intoned. The former editor of Newsweek, whom MSNBC identified on screen as a “presidential historian, “ charged Trump’s “fundraising and his ego and his narcissism, has an impact on how people live and how the vulnerable live.”

So, he complained, “if they get a result they don’t like, they storm a capitol or they throw people out of a legislature.” He lectured: “You take it to the system, you take it to the constitution, and if there’s a decision, you respect it and if the decision goes the other way, you work within channels. You don’t throw people out of legislative bodies.”

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