On Thursday, two of America’s leading voices for the religious left—CBS’s Stephen Colbert and Sen. Raphael Warnock—joined forces on The Late Show to prepare for Easter by attacking Republicans as un-Christian with some casual Jim Crow and slavery analogies.
Colbert asked, “I’m going to ask you a simple question that people doubt sometimes. What is the value of hope?”
While Warnock did answer the question, he used it as an opportunity to dunk on Republicans, “Oh, hope is everything, and when you lose hope, you stop fighting, and there are those right now, I mean we can talk about the cuts and all of these things that I’m happy to talk about that. I think they are trying to push a rather immoral budget through the Congress right now where you rob from the poor in order to give to the rich, but the other—”
Colbert…
