Meghan McCain, co-presenter of The View, said Monday that liberals like Katie Couric and others who called for the “deprogramming” of some Donald Trump supporters could “go to hell.”
McCain said she believes there will be a stronger desire for Democrats in the wake of President Biden’s election victory, but she said the language of liberals was more concerned with the dehumanization of Trump supporters, which she said was dangerous. for Democrats and the country. Couric and several others, including McCain’s colleague “The View,” Sunny Hostin, have been referring to Trump supporters over the past two weeks as “brainwashing” or “programming.”
“If you do not care about unity, you must care about the politics of this, because at the moment there is a vacuum to pick up the four people – four out of ten Republicans who feel very dissatisfied, and as President Biden and Democrats want have a big tent party and contain some of these people, great, and if we’re all just regrettable and need to be reprogrammed like Katie Couric said, then they can honestly go to hell because I do not need to be reprogrammed, ” McCain said.
“I just have a different perspective on how the government should be run.”
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Cornell Law School professor and media critic William A. Jacobson told Fox News that “threats of ‘programming’ from Trump supporters ‘have become common among liberal journalists’, calling Couric part of a ‘media complex’ that deliberately negative news about Biden during his 2020 campaign against Trump.
McCain supported Biden, a good friend of her family, in the 2020 election, but the program’s conservative host expressed sympathy for how Trump supporters are portrayed by the media.
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“That 74 million Americans are basically irreparable people … I think it’s terribly dangerous for the country,” she said.