Jason Johnson to Milbank: What You’ve Said About Authoritarianism Is What Black Journalists Have Been Screaming About Since Trump Came into Office

RUSH EXCERPT:

JOHNSON: “Joy, you’re exactly — no, it’s not. And dana, you’re under selling yourself. No, thank you. Thank you for being someone that actually said this and quite frankly, there is a racialized element to this as well I’m happy you’re the individual that said this because this is something that black journalists have been streaming about since Donald Trump got into office. When the man ran basically saying I’ll clear out this country of anybody not white and straight, it took three years for large numbers of media outlets and I’ll say the names, not everyone at these particular outlets but the hill, “the New York Times” did this. We talked about this for years. It took almost three years for most of the main stream press to say this guy is an actual threat to democracy and people that talked about it, especially journalist of color were called alarmists told they were being extreme and took a man trying to over throw an election and send terrorists to try to over throw the results in January for a lot of folks to realize it. It is a problem. It is a danger.”