Joe Scarborough loves to describe himself as a conservative. On today’s Morning Joe, Scarborough boasted at length of his conservatism, describing Russell Kirk’s The Conservative Mind (first published in 1953) as his philosophical North Star, keeping a copy of it on his desktop throughout his adult life.
The show opened with a clip of Liz Cheney endorsing Kamala Harris. Scarborough praised Cheney for it, calling her a “real conservative” in the Kirkian tradition.
Scarborough, of course, is an ardent supporter of Harris, and before her, of Joe Biden. Scarborough’s an absolute Democrat hardliner, arguably more devoted to the party’s cause than even his MSNBC colleagues. But Scarborough’s support has always been couched in the context of his contempt for Trump, the man that Scarborough has ceaselessly branded as a fascist, a threat to Madisonian democracy,…
