On Saturday's "AM Joy," MSNBC contributor Jon Meacham insulted President Donald Trump and his supporters, claiming that they are living in an "alternate reality" over the coronavirus while Democrats are "taking the science seriously."
He also compared President Trump's "America First" movement to Charles Lindbergh's Nazi sympathizer movement in World War II and whined that the president "coddles his base in a dangerous way" while "scapegoating" China.
While discussing the number of protests taking place across the country speaking out against the number of restrictions put in place during lock downs, host Joy Reid brought Meacham in and compared the protesters to "zombies."
She asked, "A lot of people said it looked like a zombie movie. Zombie directors also think so, too, sort of like a scene out of the Walking Dead or whatever ... What is this rage that these protesters - one of them is running for office … What is it that they're trying to channel here? Is this sort of neoconfederacy? And what the hell does that have to do with a pandemic?"
Meacham responded by smearing Trump supporters and conservatives:
"You have some folks on the right who are sensing that this is some global force, and they don't like things that are outside their borders. 'America First' was a phrase that was used by Charles Lindbergh and the Nazi sympathizers in 1939, 1940, 1941 - it became President Trump's rallying cry...
And on the left, you have people who are seeing that this pandemic has revealed these enormous holes in our social safety net. … but here's the difference: The folks who are worried about the safety net are taking the science seriously - they're taking the facts seriously. And the folks on the right who are storming offices and talking about liberation seem to be living in an alternate reality where science doesn't matter."