Over the weekend, the show's cohosts, green-room power couple Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, made a pilgrimage to President-elect Trump's Mar-a-Lago compound, replicating the self-abasing ritual adopted by Kevin McCarthy after the January 6 coup attempt at the US Capitol and scores of other notional Never Trumpers on the right.
They pitched their craven capitulation to authoritarian rule as a healing gesture on behalf of a woefully polarized citizenry. 'Five years of political warfare has deeply divided Washington and this country,' Brezezinski burbled.
In a typically self-serious statement to their viewers, Scarborough and Brzezinski justified their obsequies before a leader they'd previously dubbed a fascist, on the threadbare rationale that propels all supine political journalism: Opening channels of communication with Trump would give them invaluable access to the upper reaches of state power.
Decrying a leader who tried to seize power by overturning a free and fair election—and who has already set plans for implementing mass deportation and overturning protections for marginalized groups—is at once galling and hypocritical coming from those who positioned themselves as oppositional figures.
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