Scarborough Says Dems Are Now Losing Elections Because of the ‘Intellectual Laziness’: When You’re Part of Groupthink, You Never Have to Defend Your Ideas

‘So when you go out and run a campaign and you think everybody’s going to agree with you, it’s just the opposite’

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SCARBOROUGH: “Here's the important point, now we talk about why the left may be adrift and at loss, the other side of that is, the intellectual laziness that every -- that -- that occurs every time you open your mouth and they all agree with you --“
GEIST: “Yeah.”
SCARBOROUGH: “-- and you're part of group think.”
GEIST: “Yeah.”
SCARBOROUGH: “So you never have to defend your idea. So when you go out and run a campaign and you think everybody's going to agree with you, it's just the opposite.”
GEIST “Yeah.”
SCARBOROUGH: “You never had to be on your toes before intellectually, and now you do, and you lose elections because of it.”


 

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