Scarborough: Lack of Civilizing Forces in Society Is Too Weak To Combat the Lure of Authoritarianism

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:

SCARBOROUGH: "Willie, it’s the challenge that also has to do with the fact that so many people have become isolated, they sit in their homes all day and they’ll either watch cable news, whatever channel or they’ll listen to a poD.C.ast. They’ll go online and see things that reinforce their pre-existing world view. They’re solo operators and then they’ll spew hate back out online. And again, this lack of civilizing forces in society too weak to combat the lure of authoritarianism, it leads — just think about what we saw yesterday. The madness, the absolute madness of a president of these United States inside the Oval Office or inside the White House spewing conspiracy theories in any prior time, his cabinet would have gone in and they would have voted to remove him through the 25th amendment. They would have walked him away. In any prior time, any prior administration, this wouldn’t have happened. But you have now too many Americans believing him, believing the bizarre conspiracy theories. We saw it burst on the scene with pizzagate where a guy shows up with a gun. We have people believing that Democrats are running what pedophile cannibal rings or something like that. And the president won’t even discount that. But again, we know Donald Trump’s problem."