MSNBC host Joy Reid summarily declared that “white Christians” were to blame after multiple media outlets projected a decisive victory for former President Donald Trump in Monday evening’s Iowa caucuses.
Reid pointed out the fact that 61% of Iowans are white Christians — compared to 41% of all Americans — and then claimed that they primarily supported Trump because they believed God had given the United States to them and Trump would help them to get it back.
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Reid explained that before the caucuses, she had sought the advice of one Robert “Robbie” Jones — who is the president and founder of Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) and author of “The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy.”
“‘[White Christians] see themselves as the rightful inheritors of this country, and Trump has promised to give it back to them,'” Reid quoted Jones as saying.
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“All the things that we think about, about electability, about what are people gaming out, but none of that matters when you believe that God has given you this country, that it is yours, and that everyone who is not a white, conservative Christian is a fraudulent American, is a less real American,” Reid extrapolated on Jones’ comments. “Then you don’t care about electability. You care about what God has given you.”
The remainder of Reid’s analysis continued in that same vein — she claimed that racism in the Republican Party was the reason for former Governor Nikki Haley’s (R-SC) third-place finish behind Trump and Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL).
“It’s the elephant in the room. She’s still a brown lady that’s got to try to win in a party that is deeply anti-immigrant, and which accepts the notion you can say immigrants are poisoning the blood of our country,” Reid said. “She’s getting birthered by Donald Trump, and I don’t care how much the donor class likes her — which will ramp up a lot the better she does in New Hampshire — it’s still a challenge.”