Even discussion was up for debate as partisanship at “The View” embodied the deterioration of political discourse.
(Video Credit: The View)
Instead of enjoying an extended weekend for the Presidents’ Day holiday, the ladies of ABC’s daily talk show were once again riled up as President Donald Trump worked at fulfilling the promises he had been elected to keep. Amid lamentations about the pace the administration was keeping, co-host Whoopi Goldberg turned down a familiar path as Alyssa Farah Griffin encouraged people to “find areas of agreement.”
Decrying the “echo chamber” where the GOP was demonized at every turn, the former White House director of strategic communications who departed the first Trump administration after the 2020 election called on Democrats to recognize not everything was an area of contention.
“If you hated Project 2025, that worked for you,” she said before suggesting not everyone on the left would necessarily agree with everything in the think tank proposal that had been disavowed by the GOP leader. “Democrats have to be willing to go to uncomfortable places.”
“You have to have conversations with people who disagree with you if you want to build coalitions to push back. You’re going to find, there are a lot of things Donald Trump does that I agree with,” Farah Griffin went on. “But then there are things I think are dangerous, reckless, and want to call out.”
Instead of finding a point to agree on to show viewers at home how to bridge gaps, Goldberg’s steadfast Trump Derangement Syndrome found her arguing, “It’s hard to talk to people who support people who think you don’t matter in the country.”
“But it’s not supporting the person,” her co-host argued as she insisted, “No, no! No, no! But when you support that person, it brings — go ahead.”
“But I don’t support that person, my point being that I don’t disagree with everything Trump is doing so we have to be able to have conversations,” reiterated Farah Griffin who had suggested earlier in the segment that the left was using something like a “1990’s playbook” as though floor speeches and corporate media circuits were effective tactics in the age of social media.
Zeroing in on Project 2025 rather than Trump’s actions toward peace and bringing home hostages and political prisoners, or his efforts to eliminate waste in the federal government and ensure there was no weaponization in the Justice Department, Goldberg maintained, “Well, when we find the stuff that we agree on, that’s what we do. But when we find the stuff that is disagreeable to the majority. Now, I didn’t find anything of interest for me in Project 2025. I didn’t feel like this was geared to us as a nation.”
“I felt it was geared to very specific folks and that that bothered the poo out of me,” she added without alleging anything particular as the co-hosts had previously been made to read off legal statements on the network that settled a defamation suit with Trump when lines had been crossed. “But I understand what you’re saying. And yeah, we do have to talk to each other. That’s the beauty.”
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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