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“It’s not just the misinformation that is being spread on the other networks and on social media, that is part of it,” he said. “You also though cannot underestimate, and it’s being talked about all the time, the negative partisanship. I have heard from so many of my friends and family members who don’t say they love Donald Trump. In fact, they don’t say they like Donald Trump. In fact, they would not invite him over for dinner at Thanksgiving.”
“It’s really negative partisanship,” Scarborough continued. “It’s their fear of the Democrats. It’s their fear of ‘woke’ nation. It’s their fear that the kids will go to college and get hammered because of political correctness. You can’t say that on television without people freaking out. I’m just explaining it to you. Political correctness is something that is not spoken of, [but] it drives so much of Donald Trump’s support.”
“How do I know?” he added. “Because I keep hearing it from one person after another, when I say how can you support this man who has breached every constitutional norm, who breached every societal norm. They’ll talk about how Democrats are socialists, they’ll come back and talk about political correctness and ‘wokeness.’ It’s the negative partisanship even more than it is Donald Trump.”
Gee, Joe, where did "political correctness" come from? The Gingrich GOP is where. It was a shibboleth invented out of whole cloth to scare white conservative voters and give them a scarecrow to be afraid of. And as I recall, you were a Congress-critter in some of those days, and upheld that standard or political behavior. All that "negative partisanship" dates directly back to Gingrich and his vendetta against Bill Clinton. Gingrich never cared about the national interest; he only care about power.
Chickens coming home to roost, huh?
It also came from a. the fad of hate-talk comedy that really took off with Andrew Dice Clay who I believe was the first one I heard using the term, b. the mainstream media who took it up, entertainment certainly (Jerry Seinfeld, for example) and the "civil liberties" industry and their associated cultural supporters. They gave the Roberts' court era "free speech" rulings what they needed to be passively fallen for.
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