Chris Matthews Compares Debating Angry Rural GOP Voters to Fighting Terrorists

[Anti Federalist]

Why do we continue to feed these people, provide energy for these people, pick up their trash, police their streets, fight their wars, finance their debt?

Why?


Chris Matthews Compares Debating ‘Angry’ Rural GOP Voters to Fighting Terrorists

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PAM KEY 27 Dec 2023

MSNBC political commentator Chris Matthews said Tuesday on “Morning Joe” that debating rural voters over their support for former President Donald Trump was “like fighting terrorism.”

Matthews said, “I tell you, it’s very tough, because people that didn’t go to college have a pretty good rage on their hands. That’s what you really want in an election, is a rage. It can be black rage, or white rage, or rural rage. In this case is rural rage. They are so angry at the liberal establishment, the coastal elite. They look at people on television, they say, ‘Oh, those people on Saturday Night Live those snarling rich kids, I know who they are. They’re all trust funders. They don’t need us, they don’t have to worry about us.’ And the regular guy in the country goes, ‘There they are snarling and making fun of us again.’ And every time we make fun of Trump, we’re making fun of them.”

He added, “That’s the weird thing. But in a way, it’s like fighting terrorism. I mean, you know, we think we just put the army in, or Israel just puts the IDF and they’re going to solve the problem. It never solves the problem. Because you enrage people. And we did it with Afghanistan, and we did it with Iraq. We enrage the enemy to the point where they’re more fiery than ever, and they hate us more than ever. Armies don’t make peace. And we think they do.”

 

[Anti Federalist]

Top comment on this story:

auh2064
14 minutes ago

"We enrage the enemy to the point where they’re more fiery than ever, and they hate us more than ever."

Perhaps you could start by not referring to us as "the enemy."

 

[acptulsa]

The falsehoods are thick. Pure propaganda.

Matthews said, “I tell you, it’s very tough, because people that didn’t go to college have a pretty good rage on their hands. That’s what you really want in an election, is a rage. It can be black rage, or white rage, or rural rage. In this case is rural rage. They are so angry at the liberal establishment, the coastal elite. They look at people on television, they say, ‘Oh, those people on Saturday Night Live those snarling rich kids, I know who they are. They’re all trust funders. They don’t need us, they don’t have to worry about us.’ And the regular guy in the country goes, ‘There they are snarling and making fun of us again.’ And every time we make fun of Trump, we’re making fun of them.”

Oh, you listen to us so you're smart and educated, and you're just trying to help them out because it's hard to be too stupid to live in the city. And you and we aren't doing one single thing to harm them but making fun of their fat, orange haired celebrity, and they're reaction is all out of proportion. You don't have to worry about them, you don't need them, don't think about how you will wind up without electricity, food, the net, transportation or even plumbing without them. And the reason they're snarling isn't because y'all have been snarling at them over nothing for the last half century. It's just -- um, because.

 

[cjm]

No mention of Hitler?

 

[Occam's Banana]

Matthews said, “I tell you, it’s very tough, because people that didn’t go to college left-progressive indoctrination centers have a pretty good rage on their hands. [...]"

Fixed it for him. (Though I haven't noticed that the products of those centers are any less prone to "rage", either - especially when it comes to the "activist" types among them.)

But to be fair (and without any context for his remarks beyond what is in the OP), I don't think Matthews is saying that "rural voters" and "the regular guy in the country" are some kind of "terrorists". Rather, he seems to be trying to admonish, critique, and/or warn the people who are provoking the "rage" of "rural voters" and "the regular guy in the country" - but he used a terribly clumsy and counter-productive "armies vs. terrorists" analogy to do so.

 

[Anti Federalist]

Fixed it for him. (Though I haven't noticed that the products of those centers are any less prone to "rage", either - especially when it comes to the "activist" types among them.)

But to be fair (and without any context for his remarks beyond what is in the OP), I don't think Matthews is saying that "rural voters" and "the regular guy in the country" are some kind of "terrorists". Rather, he seems to be trying to admonish, critique, and/or warn the people who are provoking the "rage" of "rural voters" and "the regular guy in the country" - but he used a terribly clumsy and counter-productive "armies vs. terrorists" analogy to do so.

On a second reading, I think you are right.

He was, in a ham fisted way, trying to warn his fellow Marxists to not piss off the bitter clingers too much.

 

[acptulsa]

But to be fair... he used a terribly clumsy and counter-productive "armies vs. terrorists" analogy to do so.

He did that out of arrogance, just like it's arrogance that convinces him mechanics and plumbers need him more than he needs them. It's the same arrogance the brainwashers tap to install this fantasy they think is real, and therefore he did reveal the root of the problem. He didn't think he did. In fact, he explained that root was something it isn't. But he demonstrated where the problem lies admirably.

 

[Anti Globalist]

No mention of Hitler?

They'll save the Hitler comments until the Democrats pull a 180 on the vaccines.