The cast of MSNBC’s Morning Joe welcomed The Age of Grievance author Frank Bruni to their Thursday show to discuss his book that argues that the far-left and the far-right share several common traits, including their desire to portray themselves as the main victims in society. Another common trait Bruni has assigned to both sides is an opposition to free speech, although one of his examples of conservative censorship was quite underwhelming, as he seemed to confuse simply defunding public broadcasting with yanking it off the air.
Host Joe Scarborough recalled a conversation he had with someone closer to the MAGA-sphere who offered up multiple reasons why Democrats lost in 2024. Scarborough didn’t deny the arguments but tried to apply them to Republicans as well, “But these five things, like you said, it was a grievance against the Democrats, when…
