Rep. Seth Moulton on Trans Athletes Comments: When People in My Party Want to Cancel Me, How on Earth Dems Will Win the Elections?

SCARBOROUGH: “You know, Congressman Moulton, we’re the first here and we’ve said it time and time again and we’ve said it for years here that nobody should be scapegoated, that we should show compassion and love and understanding to those who are growing as kids, especially, that are going through difficult times and we should lend our support to them and we don’t want anybody isolated. We have been saying that for years. But I remember several years ago saying on this show that a male who transitions after puberty should not compete against young women, young girls, for a variety of reasons. And I cited a Pew poll, right? I hope the head of the poli-sci department or whoever from Tufts wrote that about you, they need to understand 85% of Americans agree with that. That doesn’t make them hate mongers. It just makes them go, ‘This doesn’t make sense.’ So, there is a reason why the Trump campaign spent $30 million on one ad that they played repeatedly on NFL games, that wasn’t answered, about taxpayers paying for transition surgery for inmates. Now, I’m sorry, if you’re offended by the fact that 90% of Americans say that just doesn’t make sense, then maybe you will never understand why that issue, why the border issue, why the crime issue, why all of these other issues, the defund the police, as James Carville said, all these things added up. By the way, on the issue in particular, I wonder if they will disinvite Maureen Dowd to their campus, because she made the same point that you made in her New York Times op-ed on Sunday.”
MOULTON: “Well, this is actually the policy of the Olympics as well. So maybe tufts kids are not allowed to compete in the Olympics.”
SCARBOROUGH: “Not only can they not compete in the Olympics now, maybe they shouldn’t even be able to intern or work for any Olympic committee.”
MOULTON: “Right. I mean, imagine if one of these Tuft students actually wants to intern in a Republican office? I mean, what would these political science professors do then? This is just everything that’s wrong with this cancel culture. I mean, look, we are going to be fine. We always have way more applicants for internships that we have slots from all kinds of universities. But this really hurts the Tufts students, the Tufts students who want to just be able to have debates, who want to be able to have different views. So when people like this in our party try to cancel me or whoever else, they are also talking down, they are cancelling the views of a vast majority of Americans. And so how on earth are we going to win elections if that is our approach, that we just want to preach down to people and tell them that they are morally wrong if they don’t meet some strict ideological purity test?”