Posted on 06/25/2022 5:49:11 PM PDT by Morgana
MSNBC’s resident historian Michael Beschloss lost his mind as he reacted to the Supreme Court’s ruling that struck down Roe v. Wade. On Friday’s installment of The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle, he accused the Court of throwing acid in people’s faces, pushing the country towards an “almost civil war on the issue of abortion,” all because they can.
Ruhle was upset that the Court did not consult polling data before issuing its opinion when she asked, “you know who doesn't have to fight aggressively or get reelected? Supreme Court justices…So, when we keep hearing about how unpopular this is or how the Court is really losing the faith of the American people. Do these justices care? They’re on the bench for life and they got exactly what they wanted.”
Beschloss didn’t explicitly say no, but it was clear that is what his answer was. He began by accusing the Court of acting more like Donald Trump than George Washington, “You know, look at the tone of that decision today. George Washington would have said, if you've got power, like a five-person majority. You always exercise it with restraint. You always try to bind the country together. That seems to be what John Roberts was trying to do, which was to introduce a change in abortion rights and narrow them, but with this decision, it sounds like just Donald Trump.”
Nobody is foolish enough to believe that Beschloss and Ruhle would have been satisfied if all the Court had done was uphold the Mississippi law, because Beschloss proved incapable of forming a legal argument, “This decision was intended to throw scalding acid into the face of people who feel strongly about abortion rights. It was intended to shock.”
Beschloss then claimed that big reversals need big majorities. Using Brown v. Board of Education as his reference point, he declared, “You have to do it with language that’s general, introduce justice with mercy. And so as a result, that was an overwhelming majority for Brown v. Board of Education, helped that social change to be accepted. But what this was, did this morning, I think, pushed our beloved, bleeding country in the direction of almost civil war over the issue of abortion.”
As a historian, Beschloss should know better to ignore the blowback Brown got from southern Democrats like Orval Faubus. Intellectual honesty aside, Beschloss continued, “One day after it made another decision on gun safety. This is not a Supreme Court trying to heal, this is a Supreme Court of a radical majority. Essentially saying, look at how much power we have even though we are about a third in terms of the country in terms of sharing our views. We’re going to just shove it in your face.”
And by shoving it in your face, he means that Democrats will now have to do what Republicans have had to do since 1973: convince voters.
This segment was sponsored by Otezla.
Here is a transcript for the June 24 show:
MSNBC The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle
6/24/2022
11:42 PM ET
STEPHANIE RUHLE: Michael, you know who doesn't have to fight aggressively or get reelected? Supreme Court justices.
MICHAEL BESCHLOSS: Right, right.
RUHLE: So, when we keep hearing about how unpopular this is or how the Court is really losing the faith of the American people. Do these justices care? They’re on the bench for life and they got exactly what they wanted.
MICHAEL BESCHLOSS: That's exactly it, that's the central question here. You know, look at the tone of that decision today. George Washington would have said, if you've got power, like a five-person majority. You always exercise it with restraint. You always try to bind the country together. That seems to be what John Roberts was trying to do, which was to introduce a change in abortion rights and narrow them, but with this decision, it sounds like just Donald Trump. This decision was intended to throw scalding acid into the face of people who feel strongly about abortion rights. It was intended to shock.
Compare that to, for instance, the decision on Brown v. Board of Education, 1954. Saying that you couldn’t do separate but equal anymore, you couldn’t have a segregated society. Earl Warren said privately as he was talking to justices, you know, this is going to be a big social change to say that the government is now saying there has to be integration. You can't do that with a 5-to-4 majority. You have to do it with language that’s general, introduce justice with mercy.
And so as a result, that was an overwhelming majority for Brown v. Board of Education, helped that social change to be accepted. But what this was, did this morning, I think, pushed our beloved, bleeding country in the direction of almost civil war over the issue of abortion. One day after it made another decision on gun safety. This is not a Supreme Court trying to heal, this is a Supreme Court of a radical majority. Essentially saying, look at how much power we have even though we are about a third in terms of the country in terms of sharing our views. We’re going to just shove it in your face.
If Washington was alive he'd be appalled that abortion was ever made legal in the first place. In fact the majority of the crap going on should make Washington turn over in his grave.
They are returning the issue to the states, where it belonged.
I am also quite certain Washington would not find the Kenyan from Indonesia to be a natural born citizen, either.
Lost in this rant? The Justices were acting properly and kept the Constitutionality of the cases in mind. As is their ONE JOB.
✌🏻V for victory 🤪
Washtington would have also said trump won
This guy is using behavior of freeloading islamists in france who he no doubt supports and makes excuses for so really he’s projecting his adopted fantasy on to those he hates. The emotional reasoning is certifiable.
Pre-obama, this guy seemed normal but he became unhinged during the campaign. He was on Imus’ show and claimed Obama is the smartest president we ever had with an IQ that was off the chart. Imus then asked him what it was and he was called racist.
Listen to the luridly vile language leftists regularly indulge in while we were hard pressed, over the last 50 years, to call them the baby killers and baby butcherers that they in fact are. I mean no hyperbole there. That’s what hey are. That’s literally what they do.
You know who does? Democrat representatives - who have had 49 years to pass a bill legalizing abortion nationwide and have never dared to do so. Why do you think that might be, Steph? :)
will beschloss be leading the charge of his followers in the civil war he seems to be inciting? i dearly hope so.
Is an MSNBC Historian anything like an MSNBC news reporter? I know that’s like asking if mule pucky is anything like horse pucky, but...inquiring minds want to know.
Need a stronger acid.
The real acid thrown in the face was when roe v wade was even passed.
Democrats:
Threatening violence over the fact that they can no longer kill children with ease.
Try and wrap your head around that.
CC
Even when I flip past the MSNBC channel, I lose a few IQ points
No hyperbole here... no sirree...
Beschloss is just another liberal mouthpiece who wants to influence as many folks as he can towards the dark side. Just a fake, phony, fraud historian who only wants to mold and shape information to meet his own agenda.
He’s pathetic!
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