It took a stinging election defeat for the truth to sink in with Joe Scarborough. And this morning, he was forced to yield to reality.
For all his endless–and we do mean endless-wailing about “fascism,” and Mika’s fearmongering on abortion rights, on today’s Morning Joe Scarborough admitted that voters cared less about that, and more about the price of gasoline and groceries. Scarborough wondered out loud to John Avlon:
“I talked a lot over two years about fascist rhetoric . . . There were threats of retribution, there was the issue of women’s reproductive choices and health, rubbing up against, pounding up against, the price of groceries, the price of gasoline. How do you balance that when, obviously, what voters said was, we care more about the price of gas and we care more about the price of groceries?”
Avlon’s response was a statement that, while…
