MSNBC political analyst Elise Jordan suggested Tuesday that the rhetoric of former President Donald Trump should put him in a “straitjacket.”
“You would hope that insane rantings that sound like someone should not be in power; rather, they should be in a straitjacket and given some kind of injection. You would hope that that would not be just dismissed by a lot of voters,” Jordan told the crew of Morning Joe.
Her comments came after host Joe Scarborough alluded to an argument positing that when voters are talking about President Joe Biden, Republicans win, but when they are talking about Trump, Democrats win.
“As Donald Trump goes into this election, and he says crazier things every day, and they are getting crazier, Donald Trump’s numbers likely will go down again,” according to Scarborough.
Jordan argued that supporters of the former president are likely to ignore Trump’s comments.
“Unfortunately, as we’ve seen, there are plenty of Republican voters who are willing to look away and dismiss it just as theater, just as performance, because … the polarization is so strong,” Jordan said.
Trump supporters are steadfast against Democrats, and all that matters to them is defeating “the other side,” according to Jordan.
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“You look at how the electorate in this country has been so radicalized, where 2 out of 10 Americans see the other side as the enemy, not just political opposition, but the enemy,” she said.
“I worry that Donald Trump is winning when attention is on him, no matter how insane or inane his comments are at a given moment.”