'High on its own supply': MSNBC host shows how GOP's election denialism backfired on party
The GOP has spent years convincing itself of its own false claims about election fraud and rigging, said anchor Ari Melber on MSNBC Thursday evening — and the latest round of election losses they suffered on Tuesday proves it has backfired on them, much like a drug dealer raiding his own stash.
"The fact that the Trump wing of the party embraced denialism has hurt the party's ability to get anywhere near competitive," said Melber. "If you're watching this and want a healthy democracy, that's a bad thing. If you're watching and want Republicans to keep losing elections you're hoping they keep making this mistake. The Republican Party, under Trump's election denialism, has been lying to itself, and that doesn't work, which brings us to an iconic and true lesson from 'Scarface.'"
He played a clip from the iconic film, showing the character of Elvira Hancock chiding drug dealer Tony Montana: "Number two, don't get high on your own supply."
"Don't get high on your own supply," echoed Melber. "You could be dealing, you could be lying, you could be giving into others, but when you start dealing to yourself, when you and your own team are getting high, losing your sense of reality, losing your sobriety, politically and otherwise, well, you really played yourself. Trump pushed the party into spending years high on its own supply, demanding it, making it a kind of litmus test that future candidates running in related elections had to get high on his supply and pretend he didn't lose."
Now, he said, they will have to course correct, or continue to lose.
"How about changing?" said Melber. "That's what we're going to get into tonight. This could be an important thing. And there are those on the stage last night and in the, shall we call it the product distribution center of this Scarface part of the party, who are starting to worry they have been too high on a very bad supply for too long."
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