Mara Gay: Liberal Scumbag of the Week

Claim To Fame: New York Times editorial board member

Why She's the Liberal Scumbag of the Week: for criticizing Senator Lisa Murkowski in lieu of her vote against any more witnesses coming forward during the current impeachment trial. Murkowski's 'nay' turned out to be a critical vote in that it allowed Mitch McConnell to avoid a tie and essentially end this totally partisan impeachment trial/hoax. But just like most of her far-Left colleagues in the media Gay was outraged, even going so far as to compare GOP opposition to impeachment to the defense of Jim Crow:

Mara Gay of the New York Times editorial board on Thursday compared Republicans’s behavior during the impeachment trial of President Trump to twentieth century politicians’ defense of the Jim Crow South, saying the nation is in a “very scary moment.” 

“I have to say, as somebody who grew up with a father who grew up in the Jim Crow South and in Jim Crow Detroit, a lot of what this has looked like from the Republican side, the kind of imagining and the farcical nature of this, the lack of good faith argument sounds very familiar to me, and it’s actually quite scary,” Gay said during an MSNBC panel. “I think we’re in a very scary moment.”

“I think you just spoke for metric tons of our viewers watching tonight after the day we’ve been through,” host Brian Williams responded.

Earlier in the segment, Gay said that Republicans’ reflexive defense of the president in the face of Democrats’ abuse of power allegation represented the culmination of a years-long devolution in the credibility of American institutions. 

“For the majority of Americans who have watched this process unfold and are living in reality … what we’re witnessing tonight is really a capstone and a just total collapse of faith in American institutions,” Gay remarked . “I think if you are an American who believes the evidence that the House managers laid out, you have to be thinking to yourself tonight, ‘I need to get myself and everybody on my block and everybody in my family to a poll very quickly’ because otherwise this president is not going to be held accountable.