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Eugene Robinson Kicks DeSantis On His Way Out The Door

Mika Brzezinski Joe Scarborough Eugene Robinson MSNBC Morning Joe 1-23-24 What’s up with these Morning Joe regulars who had cultivated something of a benign image suddenly turning nasty?

Yesterday, we noted BBCer Katty Kay with a mocking laugh as she suggested to Charlie Sykes that they do a DeSantis post-mortem, “before we consign him to oblivion and forget his name.”

Today, it was Eugene Robinson’s turn to turn mean. Though Robinson is an ardent liberal, he has something of an avuncular air about him. But both in his current Washington Post column, snidely entitled “The Nation’s Gain is Florida’s Loss,” and on today’s Morning Joe, Robinson took nasty swipes at Ron DeSantis as the Florida governor exited the GOP primary stage.

The show quoted Robinson’s very strained analogy in his column [emphasis added], “I fear DeSantis will continue using the state as a stage to boost his MAGA profile — just like those awfully high…

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