Much has been said and written by right-wingers about the precipitous decline of Saturday Night Live. There is a reason why SNL’s Donald Trump jokes are rarely funny while its rare Joe Biden jokes harken back to a bygone era when political comedy was appreciated by all: Hatred is off-putting.
Comics on SNL like Biden and hate Trump, which is a recipe for bad comedy. But openly spewing hatred toward everyday people is an even worse electoral strategy, a strategy that most pundits and politicians on the Left have employed for years and are ramping up now as the 2024 election approaches.
On Tuesday, MSNBC panelists, consisting of former official Biden regime mouthpiece Jen Psaki and unofficial Biden regime mouthpieces Joy Reid and Rachel Maddow, put their deep-seated hatred of the public on full display. The media personalities lamented the fact that voters care about the unprecedented invasion of the southern border.
“I live in Virginia. Immigration was the No. 1 issue … you’re thinking like what?” said Psaki as Reid chuckled, and Maddow added, “Well, Virginia does have a border with West Virginia!”
Of course, there are many reasons for people to be concerned about the massive number of unvetted illegal aliens flooding into the country, from the economic toll and strain on federal entitlement programs to the string of violent crimes, including murder, being perpetrated by illegal immigrants across the country. Aside from the fact that these hard-left pundits are completely out of touch with the plight of the common man, West Virginia, a state that apparently gives Maddow nightmares, was a reliable Democratic state as recently as the late 1990s.
In fact, it was a shock to many and a sign of the changing of the times when the Mountain State voted for George W. Bush in 2000. With senator and former two-term governor Joe Manchin’s impending retirement, the Left’s all-out assault on fracking and American energy production generally, and the insistence by leftists on insulting their perceived political opponents at every turn, it is unlikely that West Virginia goes blue in the foreseeable future.
Surely the GOP would love for the Rachel Maddows of the world to turn their hatred toward other blue-collar states as well. It certainly wouldn’t do vulnerable Democrats such as Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Jon Tester (D-MT) any favors.
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From President Barack Obama’s “bitter clinger” comments to Hillary Clinton being genuinely confused as to why she wasn’t leading Donald Trump by 50 points in the polls, being out of touch has become a staple of modern Democratic Party leadership. As inflation devastates the middle class, and the aforementioned border invasion continues unabated, the Biden administration’s focus is on appeasing defense contractors with a never-ending flow of tax dollars to Ukraine.
On the rare occasion that the 46th president is asked a serious question, Biden usually uses it as an opportunity to berate his fellow Americans as “enemies of democracy” for noticing that his presidency has been an unmitigated trash fire. Surely that will win over the rubes, rednecks, and hillbillies from the Blue Ridge Mountains to the Shenandoah River.
Brady Leonard (@bradyleonard) is a musician, political strategist, and host of The No Gimmicks Podcast.