Talk about paranoid conspiracy theorists! On MSNBC’s The Weekend on Sunday morning, leftist historian Michael Beschloss claimed the “chances are very large” that in October 2024, i.e., just before the election, Putin, China, Erdogan, etc. are “going to make a big effort to make trouble and chaos to make Joe Biden look bad.”
Beschloss also fretted that there would be “domestic unrest in American cities” at the same time. He analogized the situation to how voters lost confidence in Jimmy Carter in 1980 over his handling of the Iranian hostage crisis. Beschloss imagined the proverbial “independent women in the Philadelphia suburbs” saying that despite Trump making their “skin crawl,” they would vote for him anyhow since Biden “has lost control.”
A recurring theme of the segment was Beschloss describing the 2024 election as a choice between “democracy and…
