Ali Velshi On Extremist Takeover Of Republican Party

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  • Tom Nichols and Stuart Stevens join MSNBC’s Ali Velshi to discuss how the “cult around Donald Trump doesn’t care about policy” and Republicans have only one choice in the midterms: “to vote for a Democratic candidate.”
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  • @lexas1
    @lexas1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    When you neglect education and social reform in favour of corporate profits for decades you end up here...

    • @stephanielewis8481
      @stephanielewis8481 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yep

    • @RM-gm9fs
      @RM-gm9fs 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Exactly 💯

    • @susanottenthal309
      @susanottenthal309 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      YOU END UP HERE BECAUSE OUR LEADERS
      IN POSITIONS OF POWER ALL THE WAY UP
      TO THE PRESIDENCY REFUSES TO
      ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WHITE SUPREMACISTS HAVE BEEN THE CANCER
      IN THIS COUNTRY FOR CENTURIES, AND
      NOW THEY HAVE PEOPLE IN POSITIONS
      OF POWER IN CONGRESS, IN JUDICIARY
      POSITIONS, IN LAW ENFORCEMENT AND
      IN EXECUTIVE POSITIONS IN BUSINESSES
      AND BIG CORPORATIONS. AS A MATTER OF
      FACT, THERE IS A MULTI-BILLIONAIRE THAT GAVE A BILLION DOLLARS TO BE
      SPREADED AROUND TO THE VARIOUS
      . REPUBLIKLAN ORGANIZATIONS TO HELP
      PUSH THESE FASCIST-RACIST NARRATIVES
      AND POLICIES_____ FOLLOW THE MONEY !!
      TELL THE TRUTH_____SHAME THE DEVIL !!
      VOTE BLUE IN 2022 AND BEYOND !!!

  • @bdhanes
    @bdhanes 2 ปีที่แล้ว +68

    2022: Democracy VS Autocracy
    This is where we're at... 😖

    • @RM-gm9fs
      @RM-gm9fs 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Sadly YES.

    • @watchman4todayreloaded192
      @watchman4todayreloaded192 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes - Trump was for democracy vs Biden for presidential orders betraying every US and western citizen. The US has let a pack of wolves in sheep's clothing take over their country. They didn't have to offer the Ukraine a partnership in NATO and threaten Putin with nuclear missiles within a minute's flying time of Russia. They knew that if they did, he would respond both militarily and economically. They knew that they were engineering a war that would damage both food and fuel supplies to the west and increase the cost of living for the poorest people in the world.
      Now Biden is backing the madness of the UN sabotage of more food autonomy across the west, in Canada, in the Netherlands and in the US and more madness to come. they are forcing farmers into bankruptcy and increasing poverty and hardship in Europe and North America, but the knock-on effect is going to mean famine and starvation in countries where people are already unable to even feed themselves on less than a dollar a day. This is engineering death - and that is the legacy of Biden, Trudeau, Rutte, Schwab and those who vote for or back their ideas. Their blood is on the hands of those who are cynically called 'democrats'.

    • @MyName-cw4yr
      @MyName-cw4yr ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Joe Biden is an autocrat....

  • @StratsRUs
    @StratsRUs 2 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    The GOP is done

    • @erickborling1302
      @erickborling1302 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Don't celebrate before the dumpster fire is not extinguished.

    • @emjay2045
      @emjay2045 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      🙏🏻
      👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

    • @StratsRUs
      @StratsRUs 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@erickborling1302 I meant that the GOP is over and Nazis are welcomed in America.

    • @lindascott3973
      @lindascott3973 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      From your [keyboard] to God's ear, as my grandmother would say.
      They deserve their demise, as Lindsay said before he succumbed to the Trump cult.

    • @Packer1290
      @Packer1290 ปีที่แล้ว

      Are you in for a shock this fall. When you sitting there a month from now wondering why The Dems no longer have a House majority and Pelosi is replaced, will you question why you were brainwashed into thinking that? HAve you the capability of self reflection in that manner? Will you accept the election results or will you claim the House was stolen?

  • @thekavestation
    @thekavestation 2 ปีที่แล้ว +118

    it wasn't a takeover
    they just learned that they could say the quiet part out loud and not face any consequences for it

    • @TheMahayanist
      @TheMahayanist 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      True. Trump taught them that they could be proud of their right wing views. Before they'd need to haggle and negotiate them with an opposition.

    • @Tht1Gy
      @Tht1Gy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Well, there *IS* that! Lol

    • @JD-ny3vz
      @JD-ny3vz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Exactly conservativism has always been terrible in this country see slavery/civil rights....Trump allowed them to be fully themselves

  • @barryadams243
    @barryadams243 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    If you want your democracy back get rid of Murdoch and his media monopoly

    • @frankpeter9145
      @frankpeter9145 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      And vote Blue at the midterms.

    • @jacryan2004
      @jacryan2004 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Aussies did and we are better for it!!

    • @lindascott3973
      @lindascott3973 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      💯

    • @RM-gm9fs
      @RM-gm9fs 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Vote blue vote blue vote blue like your freedoms depend on it because they do.

  • @NotTheRealRogerMurdock
    @NotTheRealRogerMurdock 2 ปีที่แล้ว +73

    Stuart Stevens is the only "former Republican" telling it like it really is and was. He seems to be one of the few who acknowledge the GOP's primary issues have to do with race because those issues they talk about calling Democrats out on usually involve people neither the Republican party nor its constituents have shown any interest in since looooooooong before Trump. But I do love hearing both guests admit that the "woke" party isn't the one trying to burn the Constitution to the ground.

    • @TheMahayanist
      @TheMahayanist 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah. The GOP is a white supremacist party.

    • @alexkilgour1328
      @alexkilgour1328 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Only former Republican? Joe Scarborough, Nicole Wallace, S.E. Cupp, David Frumm... there are plenty others. Those are just the media ones that I can think of off the top of my head.

    • @denisdaly1708
      @denisdaly1708 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ya, Newt Gingrich

    • @Sarah-said
      @Sarah-said 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@alexkilgour1328 Those are all still Republicans regardless of how they vote, the are not part of the fascist Trump party but they are still Republicans on policy beliefs.

    • @lynnquismorio948
      @lynnquismorio948 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wow.. amazing how deep your disillusionment runs.. it's u woke people that are racist..u woke people that encourage little boys to become little girls and vice versa..labeling parents as domestic terrorists etc.. humanity at its worst..

  • @eleanorwittering3126
    @eleanorwittering3126 2 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    BOTTOM LINE!:
    "If Democracy ceases to exist, if the U.S. Constitution CAN NOT be salvaged, NO OTHER CONVERSATION MATTERS (or, exists, for that matter)."
    'getting down to "the bare bone/skeleton" of the matter.
    Excellent.

    • @c10wiremantawwallace13
      @c10wiremantawwallace13 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      This is hilarious coming from the Marxist far-left Democratic Socialist Party that actually has several attacks against the Constitution & Bill of Rights.
      As if the liberals at MSNBC can name 4 far right wing conservative fractions inside the GOP party.
      Democratic Socialists, Progressives, LGBTQIA Populists, Globalist Western Europe first, Blue dog democrat centrists.
      Try that with the GOP and you simply get Rino's vs Trump Republicans!!!

    • @reason6835
      @reason6835 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Democracy and the constitution aren't going anywhere. You guys are paranoid.

    • @c10wiremantawwallace13
      @c10wiremantawwallace13 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@reason6835 First off America is a Republic that are Founding Fathers went to great lengths to make sure it was Not a Democracy with majority strong hand hold over all the people. So, they made sure that State Rights & the states Constitution came before the Federal Government of Washington DC.
      The U.S Constitution was drafted to Limit the Power & Scope of Government to a minimum over the people.
      The 1st, 2nd, 4th, 14th, amendments are all under direct attacks by one political party and that hasn't changed for the better in the last 40 years, its only become a greater problem & issue when the democratic socialist party has control as they do now.

    • @eleanorwittering3126
      @eleanorwittering3126 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@reason6835 did 'ANY of say we're paranoid!?
      And, yes, if extremists in our nation have their way, 'the U.S. Constitution could fall into oblivion.....

    • @stevenparrish2290
      @stevenparrish2290 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Why are Democrats funding trump backed candidates?

  • @rrrjjj5572
    @rrrjjj5572 2 ปีที่แล้ว +244

    "Donald Trump gave people permission to be their worst selves." Thank you Stuart Stevens, you hit the nail on the head.

    • @barrydunn682
      @barrydunn682 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      In other words, he made it OK for them to crawl out from under their rocks.

    • @ridethecurve55
      @ridethecurve55 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well, No. What Dems are trying to say is, "Okay, let's meet in a center-place', But Have a Conversation that's Constructive! Today's Trumpian party isn't even willing to this one basic thing! WTF? How can you work with a party who won't lay down a policy platform nor abide by any rules of politic? And it took less than 18 months to morph into this lazy, power-hungry thuggish tribe!

    • @douglaslowe5
      @douglaslowe5 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      when people show u what they are, believe them. And i shun them completely from my life and buisiness

    • @machintelligence
      @machintelligence 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The masks are off, but then Republicans hate masks.

    • @YouTuber-pj1kf
      @YouTuber-pj1kf 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Fits perfectly on a bumper sticker which is how the majority of low information Democrat voters form their opinions.

  • @timberrington8230
    @timberrington8230 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Look I've considered myself an Independent all my life. I voted for who I thought was the better man/woman. But after Trump spreading lies that the election was stolen, and no Republican leaders standing up and saying no Donald you lost fair and square, I made my mind up to never vote for a Republican again. We teach our children and grandchildren to do the right thing in life. Sometimes you win sometimes you lose. We console them when they hit bumps in the road. We don't say next time just change the rules if something doesn't go your way. If only Trump's parents had instilled that in him.

  • @captaingoodguySentientA.I.
    @captaingoodguySentientA.I. 2 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    🌸 is there anyone left in trumpworld who isn’t a felon? 🌸

    • @captaingoodguySentientA.I.
      @captaingoodguySentientA.I. 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @illawarrior hill is there any proof of barron’s innocence?

    • @lethavanstory3528
      @lethavanstory3528 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Probably not!

    • @lindascott3973
      @lindascott3973 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@captaingoodguySentientA.I. he's still a minor, we should leave him alone.

    • @kimocoloma4123
      @kimocoloma4123 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      There's no one found or convicted of a crime including Trump. There were few that were prosecuted for lying to the FBI nothing implicated Trump. The most privilege man in America today is Hunter Biden. "AN APPLE DOESN'T FALL FAR FROM THE APPLE TREE". You know what I'm saying?

    • @nicholasfarrell5981
      @nicholasfarrell5981 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lindascott3973 yeah, because RepubliKKKans leave minors out of it /s

  • @seanpatrick1243
    @seanpatrick1243 2 ปีที่แล้ว +107

    “The tall grass that moderate Republicans hide behind . . . “
    It’s called willful ignorance.

  • @crystalratclffe3258
    @crystalratclffe3258 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Biden wasn't my first choice but he wasn't Trump!

    • @RM-gm9fs
      @RM-gm9fs 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Agreed.

    • @barrydunn682
      @barrydunn682 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @bridgebuilder1225 Perhaps you should take a look at the legislation being passed lately. Do you like lower prescription costs? Better infrastructure? Expanded health care? Chip factories to reduce dependence on Asia? Low unemployment? Minimum 15% tax on large businesses? Those making over $400k paying more tax? I do!

    • @Packer1290
      @Packer1290 ปีที่แล้ว

      I give you credit. Your about the only Dem I know who admits thee days voting for Biden. LOL! BTW, you owe the rest of America an apology for that.

  • @karenbailey2541
    @karenbailey2541 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Profound -
    "Real life is boring..." So folks prefer to 'play' war. SMH.
    "He gave folks permission to be their worst selves...." Nailed it. 🔨

  • @annehersey9895
    @annehersey9895 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    'Democracy or Autocracy, these people want autocracy!'Exactly what I have been saying since trump was first elected!

  • @CGMaat
    @CGMaat 2 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    We like this hour with you! Thank you ALI .

    • @rrrjjj5572
      @rrrjjj5572 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yes! Ali, you are a wonderful journalist and anchor. Thank you.

    • @silentminority2342
      @silentminority2342 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      no he is a clown just look at the likes

    • @lindascott3973
      @lindascott3973 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@silentminority2342 👈 found the real clown 🤡

    • @RM-gm9fs
      @RM-gm9fs 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@silentminority2342 Have you seen the likes on your a traitor,?

  • @sarahfuchs4196
    @sarahfuchs4196 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    To all Republican....You are welcome to vote with Democrats this year. We promise you can go back to bring Republicans as soon as Democracy is safe again.

    • @Packer1290
      @Packer1290 ปีที่แล้ว

      LAst I checked, Trump isn't running this fall. Plus I really don't think the DEmocrats have done a very good job this year. The DEmocrats have put this country on a path of economic ruin. Anyone who lived in the Jimmy Carter years knows that this path of high inflation and rising rates has a bad ending.

  • @lamarhowe1175
    @lamarhowe1175 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    The audacity of the Republicans talking integrity. (Sick)

  • @incognito3620
    @incognito3620 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    The issues we face are on longer about employment, taxes, climate. The underlying issues here is American Democracy. It is in jeopardy of being overturned. If you want freedom to live your life and prosper- VOTE DEMOCRATIC FOR ONE TIME. THIS TIME. If Democrats are wrong, it will become apparent quickly. See if your life changes for the better. We have lived under Republican rule too long. VOTE DEMOCRATIC - one time and see what happens.

    • @Packer1290
      @Packer1290 ปีที่แล้ว

      So when people go out an vote in about a month and the GOP takes the House and Pelosi is thrown out as speaker, will you say Democracy worked? How about if the GOP takes the House and Senate? Or will you say it failed because you didn't like the result?

  • @johnhanley9098
    @johnhanley9098 2 ปีที่แล้ว +97

    Like a train wreck Trump has ruined the GOP. We can't let that go beyond the GOP. Vote Democrat to save our constitution and to keep our country free from the radical right and their bigotry.

    • @ha-zi
      @ha-zi 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm afraid that winning the Democrats wouldn't make things any better. The Republicans would become even more aggressive. They are radicalizing at a rate that is frightening. Some openly call for gun violence in the media and are not even held accountable for it! Does everyone think it will remain peaceful? I see the danger but would rather stick my head in the sand? Security is a valuable asset that is currently being lost.

    • @careydepass130
      @careydepass130 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I love how some of the more hyper-partisan Democrats pretend they are not part of the problem.

    • @dennisharrell2236
      @dennisharrell2236 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Republicans have openly declared themselves enemies of the United States. The goals of this Republican Party are to incite civil war, overthrow our government, end democracy, rip the Constitution to shreds, and murder Democrats. That's why everything Republicans say is always a lie.

    • @leagarner3675
      @leagarner3675 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@careydepass130 Part of the problem is that the Republican Party is so radicalized that there is no place for centrist conservatives to go. We don't want them in the Democrat Party. We have a "big tent" party but we can't cover ideologies, policies, and practices that exclude everyone exept the rich.

    • @lindascott3973
      @lindascott3973 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@careydepass130 show us where the Democratic party has called out terrorists to threaten people for doing their jobs? Where high ranking Democratic Senators or even presidents call for terrorism to stop the peaceful transfer of power.
      With sources. No Fox/InfoWars/OAN/Breitbart lies and propaganda.

  • @AllieSheffield
    @AllieSheffield 2 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    We criticized other countries for their extreme ideology and called them terrorist organizations, what is this? Tyrant with traitors? Or terrorist too!

    • @RM-gm9fs
      @RM-gm9fs 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Terrorists.

    • @Rnankn
      @Rnankn 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The double standard is salt in a wound. It’s fairly disheartening when the left is told their well researched and thoughtful ideas are ‘radical’ and ‘extremist’, and making any demands or challenging any authority shows just how unrealistic and out of touch they are. Think of something like the Green New Deal, that was a very solid blue print for restoring national vitality and the best way to deal with climate change while helping people. It was vilified, or dismissed. Yet now we have an incomplete climate plan, and radical far right uprising - but good thing those dangerous socialists were prevented from solving our worst problems! All I’m seeing is if you want something in America, you need to scream the loudest, threaten violence and try to overthrow the government. To be fair, I think the left is smarter than that, but it sure points out the bias in politics.

  • @distainfullcateyes2990
    @distainfullcateyes2990 2 ปีที่แล้ว +69

    What you do? As a regular republicans? If you ever want a normal republican party? Switch to independent to vote full down ticket Democrat. Only a very solid rejection of the Trump Legislators will work and it won't be instantly fixed. You might just have to accept Democrats for a few years. While that's going on rejoin the republicans and blame the Trump Legislators for the loss.

    • @glasgowdoors3464
      @glasgowdoors3464 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      why would i have to accept democrats? In fact the democrats are the one wanting to have FULL control even the Supreme Court and they attack whoever disagrees with their narrative like AUTOCRATS not democrats

    • @reason6835
      @reason6835 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I tend vote Republican, though not all the time. Not a Trump fan at all, so I just take everything issue by issue, candidate by candidate.

    • @glasgowdoors3464
      @glasgowdoors3464 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@laurencrouse2418 The democrats are the crazy ones destroying the country with bills that only increase our debt, the taxes we pay and create more inequality and poverty. A bigger state printing billions has NEVER been the solution.. no matter the time in history.
      The democrat party is full of communist maniacs who despite they have Congress, Senate, Media, Hollywood and even the Crazy woke CEOs they also want the Supreme Court to have FULL control of everything.. is that what you call a democracy?
      Are you kidding me??
      A democracy is which only One party rules is actually a DICTATORSHIP..
      democrats attacked people like me who think differently and tell you we are conspiracies theories which it’s stupid. We are normal people who want smaller government.. if you believe otherwise then you’re brainwashed.
      Yes i want to tear all down.. all of what the democrats have done which has destroyed our country.

    • @johns5558
      @johns5558 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Im left-leaning in Aus, but I think your position is sensible. Also, its desirable to have a sensible republican party in the US. I think Trump has only set back both the country and the party, but he traded with the christian right and corporates who were the "swamp" he was trying to improve. Many middle republicans and democrats recognise there are serious issues with both.

    • @THATBOISHAD
      @THATBOISHAD 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@reason6835 you don't listen!!!

  • @THATBOISHAD
    @THATBOISHAD 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Let Stewart talk any chance you can get! He says it blunt and simple

  • @accutronitisthe2nd95
    @accutronitisthe2nd95 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    The party of "Law & Order" is gone!

  • @nicholasmaxwell4578
    @nicholasmaxwell4578 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    In other words, more and more people are waking up to what’s going on and seeing the conspiracy and you can’t have that.

  • @lighthouse_5299
    @lighthouse_5299 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Velshi's appropriate gravitas lends real credibility to news presentation - thank you!

  • @johns5558
    @johns5558 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Tom Nichols point about the "grind" and "boringness" of ordinary life that some conservatives rail against is, I think, reasonably accurate - but not completely. Some do reject that proposition, AND Im not sure they are wrong about it - at least not entirely. That is, its the wide and heavy corporatism which has locked down lifestyle and markets and behaviours to such an extent that true innovation, innovative living and actual wholesome living IS being compromised. Some Conservatives recognise this mistake, but using Trump to try to achieve that objective AND also being compromised by the christian right AND by corporates themselves has actually harmed the cause more than doing any good at all.

  • @WYCD
    @WYCD 2 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    3:31 This, folks, is the reality that needs to be confronted.

  • @Maryam-eg7lg
    @Maryam-eg7lg 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    "Tonight, I say this to my Republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible: There will come a day when Donald Trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain."
    Rep. Elizabeth Cheney
    06/09/2022

    • @Packer1290
      @Packer1290 ปีที่แล้ว

      Last I checked, Donald Trump isn't running for anything this fall. I realize talking about Trump is more fun for the DEms than talking about the economy, crime, Biden, Biden family legal trouble....you know the things. LOL! Can't wait until the GOP takes the House this fall and we can finally find out the truth about the Biden and their crimes with regards to taking money from foreign governments for influence. Will you defend that?

  • @madhabitz
    @madhabitz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Gosh, it's good to see your face at this time of day again -- your delivery, your thinking, your personality, meld so well with Rachel's that it felt nearly seamless when you were there. I'm really sad that you didn't get that seat. I also appreciate that when you take care of someone else's seat you don't mess with their program.

  • @PeterKaitlyn
    @PeterKaitlyn 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Revenge is a soulless substitute for actual values... I've never dated a drama queen twice...

    • @peteallyn412
      @peteallyn412 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah, I would straight up stop talking to girls like that and then they’d call me a player 😂😂 like HOW DARE YOU not want to be around my stressful attitude. Sorry not sorry.

    • @PeterKaitlyn
      @PeterKaitlyn 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@peteallyn412
      Republican's seem to like Drama Queens right now... They won't like the bill when it comes due... what was that phrase... Flaming B--ch on Wheels... he's already got the fashion... the comb over... the fake tan... what more do they need to know it's time to run the other way... the Divorce is going to be messy...

  • @Eric-qk3bk
    @Eric-qk3bk 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    The Golden Calf will rot in prison.

    • @daphnewilson7966
      @daphnewilson7966 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I wouldn't put money on your hopes, but the metaphor is not extreme. I just posted somewhere linking T to the Faust legend. It is hard to get a rational head around what seems to be a mass evil spell. Sympathies....

  • @joerogain5025
    @joerogain5025 2 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    "Fascism will come to America wrapped in the Flag, carrying a Cross ✝." Sinclair Lewis

    • @winstonsmith8565
      @winstonsmith8565 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      You're Canadian. Worry about your own country.

    • @rickton2517
      @rickton2517 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@winstonsmith8565 why? They're doing great and concerned about their neighbors, you obviously can't say the same.

    • @joerogain5025
      @joerogain5025 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Winston Grugacevobitchovitchskoffsmitskovo, your Russian. Don't worry about Donald tRump. Worry about Putin cause his hands are full with Ukraine.⬆⬆

    • @ragingmonk6080
      @ragingmonk6080 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Correction: Fascism will come to America wrapped in the" CONFEDERATE "Flag, carrying a" Bible it never read.

    • @jennyjenny4501
      @jennyjenny4501 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Let love rule
      -Lenny Kravitzzzzz

  • @joelsgodi
    @joelsgodi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    The USA is fast turning into USSA (United States of Saudi America), thanks to the republican party. The fall of democracy in the US will mean that democracy will be routed out in the rest of the world in a matter of months, even in India where I am. Thank you republican voters!

  • @AvangionQ
    @AvangionQ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    0:37 The top marginal tax rate on any income earned above $10 million per year should be taxed at 90%, as it was during America's heyday in the 1940s and 1950s ... not 42%.
    The excess funding should be used for infrastructure investment and social welfare programs, specifically to attempt to forestall global warming and economically uplift the people.
    3:07 There's not a single republican in congress right now who's not thoroughly bought and paid for by corporate special interests ... not a single one. Republicans offer less than nothing.
    At least democrats are trying to put forth policy positions that will improve people's lives ... they're compromising on the compromises to get them passed, but still ... better than nothing.

  • @jamesrobinson4247
    @jamesrobinson4247 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Both those guess has got to be applauded, cause they sounds very logical. This is, or suppose to be a country for everyone, and there in lies it's strength. But divided makes this country susceptible to every foreign enemy.

  • @JR-mm5xz
    @JR-mm5xz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Trump can Never Again be entrusted to our National Security 🇺🇸

    • @sarahf4.258
      @sarahf4.258 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      TRE45ON

    • @cdes68
      @cdes68 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jennyjenny4501 You, have integrity.

    • @RM-gm9fs
      @RM-gm9fs 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Never again.

  • @geraldmeehan8942
    @geraldmeehan8942 2 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    I think Professor Richard Wolff sumerisef it best. Frustration with the static or declining wages and benefits of the working class was coped with 2 different ways. On the left politicians offered the social liberal causes, civil rights, women's rights, environment, ect. On the right politicians offered the sense of grievance, it's the fault of immigrants, foreigners, liberals ect. That culture wars are the battlefront but capitalism is the real war.

    • @thecatthinks
      @thecatthinks 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      LOL! "We hate Trump" is all the Democrats have "offered" for 6+ years.
      You clowns are everything you accuse others of being.

    • @THATBOISHAD
      @THATBOISHAD 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I tell people all the time!!
      This is all about who is going to wash the dishes!

    • @shawnyoung8752
      @shawnyoung8752 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Funny how every white person in america had their ancestors come as immigrants. Ok not all but 90%. We stole this country from indians and latinos. We used religion an class inequality as a excuse. The same reason our ancestors left their countries. Sad.

    • @careydepass130
      @careydepass130 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      But Nancy Pelosi says we are all capitalists!! Especially when her husband, and other representatives spouses can insider trade, but not get caught.

    • @peteallyn412
      @peteallyn412 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The culture war is a distraction created by the wealthy to make the working class hate eachother.

  • @truthmatters9594
    @truthmatters9594 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    The only sane course is to be an independent voter, at this point in history GOP has become the party of the crazies, the racists, the armed extremist etc. I would hope that things would change so that there could again be two healthy political parties because that is what is needed to keep the country on course. Like the rudder of a ship we need two healthy sane parties to keep the ship of state on course.

    • @danielmartin5632
      @danielmartin5632 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Your Republican party hasn't been 'healthy' for decades.

    • @RM-gm9fs
      @RM-gm9fs 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Agreed 💯

  • @TheModelOmega
    @TheModelOmega 2 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    I'm sad to say, but my only voting option is Democrats.
    I don't support the vast majority of Democrat policies, but at least they constantly propose something, even if their bills are stupid and often die on the Senate floor. However, I was impressed with their recent bills, even though I believe most of that money is going to go to waste due to bureaucracy and red tape.
    When was the last time Republicans proposed a single bill or a solution to any number of our county's issues (Besides Tax Cuts, Attacking Voting Rights and Abortion)??? There has to be something else, I'll accept anything at this point, besides their do nothing and blame others approach.
    Heck, all I see from Republicans is constant scapegoating, name calling, blaming of Democrats, Election Results, Teachers, Socialism, Mexicans, Gays, and Transgenders (Hilary Clinton) for all our countries problems. 😮‍💨
    I consider myself an independent and refuse to give my loyalty to any political party over my country, so if Republicans want my vote, stop blaming our issues on others, stop embracing white nationalism and fascism, stop trying to make it hard to vote, kick those crazies out of your party, and start proposing some F'ing alternative solutions to Democrats! Whatever happened to repeal and replacing Obamacare, I'm all for repeal and REPLACE, but to this day, I still haven't seen the Republican alternative to Obamacare! 😡
    I feel better after ranting now...
    Okay fascists and trolls, feel free to counter rant!!! 🤡

    • @ivanvillamil2764
      @ivanvillamil2764 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      You couldn’t word it better, I was affiliated to the Republican Party when I first started voting now I’m independent. The republicans are now an autocratic anti democracy political party with no platform except what you said focused on cultural issues instead of governing and bring bills to the floor. No legislative contribution and if a democrat candidate that wants to follow law and order and uphold the democracy ; they are getting my vote. Look in Florida DeSantis passing bills that judges determined unconstitutional because it disregards the 1st amendment and other bills that teachers have not even explained exactly what they expect from them and now there are shortages of teachers nationwide because they are targeting them and in addition not paid well job and now they can be sue because one student felt uncomfortable or bullied by the teachings is absurd.

    • @biglongcadillac
      @biglongcadillac 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      MAGA = My Attorney Got Arrested

    • @lauralafauve5520
      @lauralafauve5520 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Love your rant! And feeling slightly less self conscious of my own, only slightly shorter, rant! 😉

    • @RM-gm9fs
      @RM-gm9fs 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@biglongcadillac maga are genuine aholes

  • @camelsheit_on_the_walls446
    @camelsheit_on_the_walls446 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Flies attracted to a rotting corpse, are angelic creatures compared to humans who are attracted to trump.

  • @kramnosenhoj
    @kramnosenhoj 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    “Well, Tom’s more optimistic than I am.”
    *Tom raises eyebrows*

  • @Raider352
    @Raider352 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This segment is absolutely necessary and correct.

  • @Stevie671
    @Stevie671 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Why isn't there an alternate GOP Party? One that believes in the traditional platform, not the Trump outfit.

    • @britishrocklovingyank3491
      @britishrocklovingyank3491 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Because that isn't the GOP. The Democrats are what you think the Republicans should be,

    • @lindascott3973
      @lindascott3973 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I think Liz Cheney is going there.

    • @RM-gm9fs
      @RM-gm9fs 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      t-rump swallowed them up.

    • @patriciax3677
      @patriciax3677 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lindascott3973 I know I don't agree w/ much about what Liz believes, except I greatly admire her courage and honesty. We need more like her. The REpublican party especially does. Where are they? Usually these smart, strong, decent women are Dems or independents.

  • @michaelhoerig5920
    @michaelhoerig5920 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I most definitely believe in democracy. As such, I will never again vote for a Republican candidate for any office, as long as I live.

  • @roncrook5344
    @roncrook5344 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    ALI... THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN AMERICANS PUT A TELEVISION PERSONALITY IN CHARGE OF THE COUNTRY.

  • @kenmohan4323
    @kenmohan4323 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Take Beto's approach. Gonna take work on the ground.

  • @danpoole4915
    @danpoole4915 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Time to choose. Democracy or slavery. Time to act. Time to vote!

  • @CHANTARELLA
    @CHANTARELLA 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    they say that people who thrive on constant drama are trying to avoid a latent depression from coming to the surface. I guess this would mean that many Americans are fighting to keep their depression at bay and need highly strung distractions to do so.

  • @dacna01
    @dacna01 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thomas Paine: THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.

  • @Freedom_and_Democracy
    @Freedom_and_Democracy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Abandon the GOP, it's rabid!

  • @SunnyIlha
    @SunnyIlha 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    *IT* only *WORSENS*
    If you can even imagine it could!!

  • @poulthomas469
    @poulthomas469 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    If GOP voters joined the Democratic party they could vote for moderate candidates in primaries and move the Democratic party more to the center.

  • @tonymiller6847
    @tonymiller6847 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love Ali! Honest to the core.

  • @incognito4860
    @incognito4860 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I am English, and I always thought most Americans were intelligent people, and then along came Trump!
    I have been sitting with last statement for about 20 minutes, and I honestly don't know what more to say,
    and then along came Trump!

  • @djpomare
    @djpomare 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Isn't it funny that the Australian Murdoch family dictates what simple-minded Americans should think and believe in.

    • @jacryan2004
      @jacryan2004 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Isnt it hilarious that America gives them a platform when Australia wouldnt 😂😂😂 we knew better

    • @djpomare
      @djpomare 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jacryan2004 Australian Sky TV is a becoming a mirror of Fox. I won't laugh at Aussie though coz I have some family there. I will laugh at your Aussie comedians which are the best in the world. I am sure my fellow NZers won't like me saying that.

  • @robertpearson8546
    @robertpearson8546 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What did Wyoming do? Democracy vs Fascism.

    • @britishrocklovingyank3491
      @britishrocklovingyank3491 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Cheney supports fascism but is only doing what she is as a political move.

  • @poulthomas469
    @poulthomas469 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    One thing I want to ask long time Republicans is 'Why would you support a party that welds itself to an evangelical religion?' How could that possible be good in the long run? This was not a case of people having their religion inform their actions. The Religious Right was a totally different animal than that. How could you not see the danger?

  • @katekelly3044
    @katekelly3044 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    also...it is about personal and bodily autonomy. and fundamental human rights.

  • @joerogain5025
    @joerogain5025 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Name me one good Republican besides Abe Lincoln, Dwight Eisenhower, John McCain, Adam Kingzinger and perhaps Liz Cheney?

    • @jo-anbryson466
      @jo-anbryson466 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Adam Kingzinger the only other one.

    • @mike7721
      @mike7721 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Liz Lincoln for president 2024 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤩

    • @joerogain5025
      @joerogain5025 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Jo-an Bryson : Yes, I will agree on Adam Kingzinger and will re-edit and add his name. Anybody else, anybody out there?

    • @winstonsmith8565
      @winstonsmith8565 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hillary Clinton was a Republican. And Donald Trump was a Democrat.

    • @crotalusatrox7931
      @crotalusatrox7931 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      General Dwight Eisenhower.

  • @jamaalrichardson4966
    @jamaalrichardson4966 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Universal healthcare
    Universal background checks and red flag laws
    Better infrastructure
    Rank choice voting
    Non-partisan redistricting
    Yeah, the "left-wing" is "too much" 🙄

  • @Jimsac8
    @Jimsac8 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    LOCK TRUMP UP, LOCK TRUMP UP, LOCK TRUMP UP

  • @cypressbutane4575
    @cypressbutane4575 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I like non white people and people who are LGBTQ and things like individual rights and the constitution so I cannot support a GOP candidate.

    • @griffgames9538
      @griffgames9538 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It's true, bigotry is dumb.

    • @winstonsmith8565
      @winstonsmith8565 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      HOW DARE YOU!!! IT'S LGBTQIA2S+. ARE YOU TRYING TO BE A BIGOT???? GET WOKE!!!! 😠🤬🤬👿

    • @debbielimbaga6099
      @debbielimbaga6099 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      We know it's you Goldstein...

    • @griffgames9538
      @griffgames9538 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@winstonsmith8565 Not terribly concerned with the initialism.
      I judge each individual as a distinct personality, check how they conduct themselves, what they contribute to society, how they treat others, regardless of what they do with their genitals in a consensual adult relationship.

    • @winstonsmith8565
      @winstonsmith8565 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@griffgames9538 Hey, so do I! And I've found that more often than not, the Woke are dreadful excuses for human beings.

  • @rogerdorsey7823
    @rogerdorsey7823 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    THE VOICE OF AMERICA DOWN TO A WHISPER!

  • @paulstatz5188
    @paulstatz5188 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I used to be a republican but after listening to trump I voted democratic I know BS when I hear it and that's trump The guy just lies and lies

  • @DonCoyoteDeLaMange
    @DonCoyoteDeLaMange 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    So, what are "these things," Tom Nichols, that "you find so offensive" about the Democrats? Is it health care? the environment? voting rights? paying workers a decent wage? foreign diplomacy?

  • @patriciax3677
    @patriciax3677 ปีที่แล้ว

    thank you Ali for all you do.

  • @rafk7027
    @rafk7027 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    When will we see charges? For the record.

  • @princessresinista9080
    @princessresinista9080 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It’s not only Trump responsible for this radical change. I have a lot of family members that are conservative and have been radicalized by watching Fox every day. Not only Fox hosts but all of the GOP reps who lie and cast doubt on our system are responsible as well.

    • @patriciax3677
      @patriciax3677 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      that is sooooo true.... I usually watch MsNBC, cNN or public television but once in a while lately i turn on Fox...very scary place.

  • @emjay2045
    @emjay2045 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Vote BLUE !!!!!
    🗳💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💨💨💨

  • @nogoodwolf
    @nogoodwolf 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have really enjoyed this!

  • @Tht1Gy
    @Tht1Gy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Always like Ali Velshi. He's a close second to Ari Melber, and Rachael Maddow.
    And, yes, I think Melber and Maddow share the top spot, depending on the day, issue and star alignment. 😉

    • @patriciax3677
      @patriciax3677 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes, they're all my favs....smart, honest, decent and all have passion....we just need so much more of it, esp. now !

  • @democracyforall3476
    @democracyforall3476 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Wake up people....we have to vote blue 💙 in November to save our democracy.... regardless of everything else.

    • @vincentgraham9451
      @vincentgraham9451 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Vote the criminal Democrats into extinction in the midterm elections period!!!!!

  • @allanjohnson2925
    @allanjohnson2925 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What a rejoinder against the Trump Republicans: " Why are you setting fire to the Constitution?"

  • @nopartyafilliation5322
    @nopartyafilliation5322 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Vote 💙 in 22! Vote for Women's Rights in 22!

    • @byedumdum4706
      @byedumdum4706 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yet, the new Supreme Ct Justice Ketanji Brown won't define Woman. Scary and Cowardly.

  • @YusufGinnah
    @YusufGinnah 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Only one side is interested in and judged on, policies...
    The other side spends their time figuring out new ways to get into the citizens' bedrooms, uterus's and paychecks...

  • @ericwright8177
    @ericwright8177 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    F REPUBLICANS

  • @rainbow6978
    @rainbow6978 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    If it takes those Republicans to vote democracy for the sake of reasoning like respectable debates in the future... in the end this willingness will be worth every vote.

  • @lilianebelanger9339
    @lilianebelanger9339 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Bravo agree 1000%

  • @realpeople3311
    @realpeople3311 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great show!

  • @j-genx2395
    @j-genx2395 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Misery not only loves company but Misery loves to create and cause misery for everyone else.

  • @curtiskellam5358
    @curtiskellam5358 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Does America want to become an autocracy or remain a democracy? The midterms will say a lot about where America is heading.

    • @rack9458
      @rack9458 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Psst...America was never a Democracy!

    • @curtiskellam5358
      @curtiskellam5358 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@rack9458 I agree. It's been an oligarchy. But you get my point.

    • @RM-gm9fs
      @RM-gm9fs 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      DEMOCRACY rules

  • @katekelly3044
    @katekelly3044 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    we love elites with passive income continuing to profit off productive individuals.

  • @pina1508
    @pina1508 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Let's not forget us the real American people the integrity keepers the Democracy defenders 🇺🇲 Dumpster's 🤮🤡 bring it on!!!

  • @ihmcallister
    @ihmcallister 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This happened in the UK. After years of Labour MPs refusing to do what their constituents had voted for and support the result of the Brexit referendum, millions of them voted for Conservative candidates, for the sole purpose of breaking the log-jam.

  • @kevinduncan7301
    @kevinduncan7301 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    As PJ O Rourke once observed: Everybody wants to save the world. But, nobody wants to do the dishes.

  • @GoodJuju.8D
    @GoodJuju.8D 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Revenge voting is something I hear a lot more of recently. And the hate for the other side is truly amazing.
    Read through any comment section and you will find truly rude and cruel individuals.
    Very sad.

    • @reason6835
      @reason6835 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      People are rarely like they behave online.

  • @natashanyxx9486
    @natashanyxx9486 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The difference is that the people of the modern GQP have no sense of honor or personal responsibility towards our society. Lock these thugs up.

  • @MiddleAgedDawn
    @MiddleAgedDawn 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    this was great...(many thumbs up emojis).....:)

  • @pcaristotle
    @pcaristotle 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Not just the GOP, but also LEOs and prosecutors investigating Trump.

  • @pierregibson6699
    @pierregibson6699 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You would think people who literally come from people who fault to get away from having a king….would NOT fight so feverly to have a king🤷🏿

    • @patriciax3677
      @patriciax3677 ปีที่แล้ว

      all should read Nancy Isenberg's "WHITE TRASH".... helps us know real history and what helped bring about the disaster of trump

  • @karenstrain1152
    @karenstrain1152 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    People have too much free time? 🤷🏼‍♀️ narcissists thrive on drama….

  • @patmischel6883
    @patmischel6883 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Keep the Republicans out of office for a long time.

  • @solvision3d
    @solvision3d 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    What happens when Americans have taken there freedoms for granted

  • @jefferystewart9252
    @jefferystewart9252 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Democracy or autocracy two choice for voters this mid-team election.

  • @NGC-catseye
    @NGC-catseye 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You could all vote independent.

  • @toyabrock9519
    @toyabrock9519 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Confusion is the devil 👿

  • @tatomartino8499
    @tatomartino8499 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    PUT TRUMP IN JAIL

  • @yuuka926
    @yuuka926 ปีที่แล้ว

    MSNBC has become pretty extreme over the years as well. Balanced reporting went out the window years ago. It's just the world we live in.

  • @kozmiczian
    @kozmiczian 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    . . . The Republican Party have turned into 'The DramaQueens' . . . with no drama, they have no platform. THY WANT AN AUTOCRACY !!!

  • @RonnWaters
    @RonnWaters 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    How did Germany get rid of the nazis after the war? We should do that.