MSNBC host Joy Reid responded to former President Donald Trump’s victory in the Iowa caucuses on Monday by condemning the “White Christians” who supported him.
When the results came in, Reid told the panel host that he wanted to discuss a specific data point about “White Christians,” which he had discussed with Robert “Robbie” Jones, president and founder of the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) and author of “The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy.”
She recounted that he had told her that Iowa was about 61% white Christian, while the nation as a whole was about 41% white Christian.
He asked him why this particular demographic supported Trump, despite his history of losing elections, and read Jones’ response, “They see themselves as the rightful heirs of this country, and Trump has promised to give it back to them.'”
Reid expanded and told his co-host, “All the things we think about, about electability, about what people play, but those things don’t matter when you believe that God gave you this country, it’s yours, and that every person the non-white, conservative Christian is a fraudulent America, is a less than real America. Then you don’t care about electability. You care about what God has given you.”
MSNBC host Joy Reid accused white Christian Iowans of wanting minorities to “submit” to them. YouTube/MSNBC Voters listen to caucus captains during a caucus at East Side Christian Church in Council Bluffs, Iowa, on Jan. 15, 2024. Nikos Frazier/Omaha World-Herald via AP
Later in the show, he argues that this ideology cannot be separated from his religious ties.
“It’s a religion,” he said. “And I think what we really have to deal with – and this is what the Democrats are going to be dealing with – is that this is white evangelicalism right now. It is Christian nationalism. That’s his name, right?”
He then repeated his earlier rhetoric from his talk with Jones that “white evangelical Christians of a certain mindset” think “that they own this country, that immigrants, that brown people, that Hindus like Vivek Ramaswamy and his wife are illegal Americans. They are less legitimate Americans than they are.”
Caucus votes are counted at East Side Christian Church. Nikos Frazier/Omaha World-Herald via AP
He went on to say, “They are not trying to convince people and win people over through politics. What they are saying is, ‘We own this country, and everyone will submit to us.’”
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