Historian Jon Meacham said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that supporters of former President Donald Trump ignored reason, history, convention and values when voting for him.
“This is another thing I don’t understand: The same people who have spent their whole lives self-righteously puffing up their patriotism and telling the left that they don’t love America, that they love America, are the ones who should be leaving America. These are the same people who are supporting a man who is denigrating the memory of those who have given and sacrificed everything for America,” Scarborough said.
Meacham said, “Yeah, I think about this all the time, like you do, and I think part of it is the strange decisions that a lot of people have made, which is that politics and Trump is about competition, not substance. It’s all about winning at all costs. Reason, history, convention, the values that you’re talking about, the values that many of these people embodied, are suspended, and yet somehow, when you enter Trump’s world, it’s as if gravity is cancelled.”
He added: “This is a decision they’ve made as part of this perpetual struggle in which politics has now become a really sick form of entertainment.”
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