Matthew Dowd Compares Trump Supporters To Poor Whites Defending Slavery In The Civil War

Posted • January 21, 2025: Appearing as a guest on Thursday's The ReidOut, MSNBC contributor Matthew Dowd compared poor Americans who voted for Donald Trump to poor whites who defended wealthy slave owners during the Civil War. How on Earth can he state that this is "the same thing repeating itself"? During a discussion of the billionaires who supported Trump or are attending his inauguration, as if there weren't also plenty of billionaires who voted Democrat, Dowd fretted over how much money they have: "The combined wealth of the few hundred billionaires in America -- which Elon Musk and Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos are part of or the leaders of -- have more wealth ... than the 75 million people who voted for Vice President Harris combined…" He then invoked the American Civil War and poor whites who fought for the Confederacy as he continued. (…)

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