Why Is Matt Lewis?

Third-rate-and-falling Conservative thinker and author of "The Quotable Rogue: The Ideals of Sarah Palin in Her Own Words", Matt Lewis, was at the MSNBC Big Boy table this week patiently explaining to Brian Williams why the worst thing in the world that Liberals could do right now is to say mean things about the reprogrammable Republican meatbags who are still hell-bent on wrecking our democracy.  

About which more in a moment.

But first, what is the guy about whom White Power Hour host Tucker Carlson wrote, "If you learned everything you knew about American politics from Matt Lewis, you'd be in pretty good shape. I should know, since I practically do." doing at the Big Boy table at all?  

Honestly, I blame The Lincoln Project.

You see, ever since they blew themselves into tiny, tiny bits in a fireball of serial sexual predation, coverups, lies and grifting, MSNBC (the Liberal teevee network that basically invented the Lincoln Lads) has been quietly sidling away from them.  And since MSNBC has what can only be described as a corporate quota system which mandates that MSNBC programs be larded up with with as many Never Trump Republicans per-hour as possible, the sudden downgrading of Lincoln Lad regulars from "ratings gold!" to "toxic mess!" has left big holes in their lineups.  

And to fill them, they're having to go waaaay down bench and call up some, well, Matt Lewises to meet quota.  

So expect to see the Noah Rothmans and John Podhoretzes pulled off of the pundit "B" Ark put back into active duty. And who knows, maybe even be a Matthew Continetti sighting?   Because the network clearly doesn't want much want to litigate "Whither Trump?" anymore.  They want to hear from brain wizards like Matt Lewis (told you we'd get back to it) that the worst thing we Liberals could do vis-a-vis the Republican base would be to [checks notes] hold them accountable in any way.

 

BRIAN WILLIAMS:  So, Matt, with the big lie still out there and still out there big time, and if you don't want to resort to what so many find -- this offensive and patronizing and classist line -- about "de-programming Trump followers," how would you counsel Biden and national Democrats to approach that constituency that David just made plain is out there and fully functional? 

 

MATT LEWIS:  Well, right now I agree with what David said. And I mostly agree with what Matthew Dowd said, except I don't think the onus is on Joe Biden, right. I think that what we have is really almost a generational challenge now. There is a cultural problem in America. There is a spiritual problem probably in America that needs to be addressed. You know, by pastors. This is going to be a grassroots effort to win hearts and minds as sort of an insurgency that may sound offensive as well to some people to say, but that's kind of what it is. It's about winning hearts and minds. I think the thing Joe Biden can do is be Joe Biden. Is be a healer, be a uniter and get things done, accomplish his agenda. There are other people out there, including the media, that I think have a responsibility, including people in the community, just really all of us have to step up. But I think when it comes to Democrats and Joe Biden, the worst thing that they could do is to come across like they're heavy-handed, like they're looking down on conservatives and on people on the Right. That's not going to help anything, but only, I think, make things worse. Now, look, should there be a commission? I think there should. This needs to be investigated. If law enforcement decides to pursue Donald Trump, whether it's on the insurrection or on other -- that's fine. I don't think Joe Biden should be focused on that. I think it would be actually a big mistake if he is.

Yeah, see, here's the thing Matt.  We tried it that way.  Walking on eggshells around the meatbags, constantly looking for peaceful, cooperative ways forward, extending an open hand again and again and again.  It was called "The Obama Administration".  Maybe you just slept through it?  Maybe you were was just knee-walking drunk for eight years, so this may all come as a bit of a spoiler to you, but, um, it didn't work. 

At all.

In fact, for his troubles, what president Obama got from the Right was eight years of sabotage, sedition, unhinged racism, Birtherism and, finally, Trump.

And what we learned from those eight years and the four years of Trump that followed was that the Republican base are, in fact, uneducable, unsalvageable, reprogammable racist meatbags.  And the only way to deal with them is to metaphorically kick their teeth kicked down their throats over and over again until their party and their movement are dead.  

But MSNBC has a quota to fill and needs Conservatives on tap willing to show up and pretend that speaking the blunt truth about these people --

-- would only make things worse.  

A job so menial and ignominious that even a Matt Lewis could do it.  

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