Streaming weekly on msnbc.com/mehdi, and Sundays at 8 p.m. ET on @MSNBC.
Joined October 2020
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As Trump seeks counsel from a QAnon-loving election conspiracy theorist, and a “Proud Boy” leader says Democrats "deserve to die a traitor's death," @mehdirhasan wonders what President-Elect Biden's plan is to tackle America's largest-growing violent threat: right-wing extremism.
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“I'm disgusted, but I'm also not surprised,” @DrEricDing says of news that a Trump Admin. official reportedly tried to lowball the worst-case figures. “Given what we’ve seen with this administration, so much of what they have done has been sociopathic...They just don’t care.”
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“More and more, this White House is resembling a kind of Führerbunker, or Qaddafi’s palace,” says historian @ruthbenghiat. “He’s purged everyone else, and the most extreme people are gathered round him to figure out how on Earth they can stay in office.”
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.@RBReich worries that a worse authoritarian than Trump is possible: Stagnant wages and GOP obstructionism are an "ongoing invitation for demagogues to come along and persuade people that their real enemies are foreigners, are immigrants, are Black people, are brown people."
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“We are in a national emergency,” says @RBReich, blasting the Covid relief bill. “How are people possibly going to survive on $600 over the next 3 or 4 months? I don’t know. I don’t understand the mathematics,” says the esteemed labor economist. “The priorities are bizarre.”
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That Americans have a vaccine to celebrate, @MehdiRHasan reminds us, is due to the contributions of immigrants: “We get the job done.”
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"There's a misinformation pipeline we've seen" on vaccines, @BrandyZadrozny says, "and it does involve some of the dark areas of the web, but it also involves some of the biggest companies on the planet, including Fox News...It is my great shame that I once worked there."
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"If the U.S. government were to come out and say, 'We think there are 100,000 ISIS supporters in the U.S.,' that would sound alarm bells, right?" says @NeuSummits. Well, she says, there's a "pool of millions of people that are angry right now, that Trump is starting to stir up."
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.@mckaycoppins says Mike Pence's extreme kowtowing to Trump is about ambition, yes, but sources tell him it's also due to Pence's belief in a controversial "servant leadership" theology: "It's not just a matter of political convenience, it's a matter of his duty to God."
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"You could say these are insane ravings that nobody takes seriously…except that millions of Americans *are* taking it seriously, including extremists." Mehdi takes on the flurry of MAGA supporters, militias, and gangs calling for martial law and violence to keep Trump in power.
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Joining @mehdirhasan to discuss vaccine allocation, misinformation, and more are:
@BrandyZadrozny
@NeuSummits
@mckaycoppins
Tune in via livestream at 7 p.m. ET: youtube.com/PGHkDO4GAMI
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A top Biden adviser apologized today for using blue language to describe Republicans. Biden insists he can work with the GOP. It's all a waste of time, Mehdi says: "These people are unappeasable...don't waste your presidency chasing after mythical Republican, bipartisan support."
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Does @RashidaTlaib think Pelosi should go as speaker? "It is so important that we not just look at who's speaker," but who chairs committees and takes PAC money, she says: "Half of my colleagues are millionaires, making decisions on behalf of people that live check by check."
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Is this Covid relief bill the best Congress can do? “Absolutely not,” says @RashidaTlaib. “We can do better.” She adds that for everyday Americans, rent and loan moratoriums are ending all too soon: “All of these bills are gonna be due, and there's no vaccine that can fix that.”
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When a Trump appointee at HHS claimed in July that young Americans faced “zero to little risk” from Covid and declared “We want them infected,” the contrary evidence was readily available, says @jeremyfaust: “He was either completely incompetent or a complete monster.”
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"2020 is the worst year in modern American history for people of the age of 25-44," says @jeremyfaust, coauthor of a new study that shows young adults have suffered mightily in the Covid pandemic -- contradicting GOP claims that young people are safe from the virus.
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"In some ways, on every MLK Day, we kill him all over again," says @esglaude. "We don't want to grapple with what he was talking about with the Poor People's Campaign." Making King "into Santa Claus," he adds, is "part of narrowing the scope of Black politics."
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A Black pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church is assailed as a Marxist, a subversive anti-American. No, not Raphael Warnock… well, not *just* him. Mehdi explains how the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. has been whitewashed by some of the same cultural forces that vilified him.
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Joining us tonight to talk about whether Congress is any closer on a major relief deal @RashidaTlaib as Americans wait and wait
Streaming starting at 7 PM on @peacockTV
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