Meghan McCain: Katie Couric, others calling for 'deprogramming' Republicans can 'go to hell' | Fox News
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"The View" co-host Meghan McCain said Monday that liberals like Katie Couric and others who had called for the "deprogramming" of some Donald Trump supporters could "go to hell."
McCain said she thought there would be a stronger desire for unity from Democrats in the aftermath of President Biden's election win, but she said the language from liberals had been more concerned with dehumanizing Trump supporters, which she called dangerous for Democrats and the country. Couric and several others, including McCain's "The View" colleague Sunny Hostin, have referred to Trump backers as "brainwashed" or in need of "deprogramming" in the past two weeks.
"If you don't care about unity you should care about the politics of this, because right now there is a vacuum to pick up the four people — four in ten Republicans who feel very disenfranchised, and if President Biden and Democrats want to have a big tent party and include some of these people, great, and if we're all just deplorable and need to be reprogrammed as Katie Couric said, then honestly they can go to hell, because I don't need to be deprogrammed," McCain said.
"I just have a different perspective on how the government should be run."
KATIE COURIC'S 'CONDESCENDING, ELITIST' REMARKS CALLING TO 'DEPROGRAM' GOP RETIRES JOURNO LABEL, CRITICS SAY
Cornell Law School professor and media critic William A. Jacobson told Fox News that "threats of 'deprogramming' Trump supporters have become "common among liberal journalists," calling Couric part of a "media complex" that deliberately stifled negative news about Biden during his 2020 campaign against Trump.
McCain supported Biden, a close friend of her family, in the 2020 election, but the show's token conservative host has expressed sympathy for how Trump supporters are being portrayed by the media.
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"That 74 million Americans are basically irredeemable people ... I think it's horribly dangerous for the country," she said.
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"That 74 million Americans are basically irredeemable people "
irredeemable?? how does that compare to deplorable?
Next we'll hear that "liberals" want to put "real Americans" in concentration camps run by FEMA in underground locations under Walmarts.
If you are a Trumpster who wants "liberals" to stop saying you are brainwashed, denounce and reject all conspiracy theories that have been spread by Trump and his lackeys over the past 5 years. All of them.
Nah, i’ll just keep saying “fuck liberals.”
ok
Seems a bit disingenuous after Republicans taunted the 8 out of 10 Democrats who felt disenfranchised by Trump and the Republican party for the last four years.
Also, this means 6 in 10 Republicans don't feel disenfranchised by Biden and Democrats, don't they matter? Are the 4 in ten supposed to be more important than the 6 in 10 for some reason? Seems like if the vast majority of Democrats and majority of Republicans are trying to work together and create some semblance of unity that's a good thing even if there are still 4 in ten who can't get over the loss of their dear Leader. Are we supposed to kneel to those 4 in ten and give in to the fascism they prefer simply because they're "feeling" disenfranchised? Perhaps they need to try a little harder for unity themselves, it's not just up to Democrats to bend over backwards to appease them, it takes two to compromise so if they're simply unwilling to accept anything Democrats propose perhaps the problem isn't with the Democrats.
Here's a thought - let's stop pretending that Trump supporters merit being handled with kid gloves.
The most unfit for office president in the 245 year history of this country inspired a mob of conspiracy theory fanatics to assault the US national government building , and Megan McCain thinks people are being too rough on the Trumpsters. Ridiculous. Honestly though, I have little to no faith we can get past this any time soon. Modern media and social media totally play into the hands of the conspiracy addled extremists.