On Saturday’s edition of MSNBC’s “AM Joy,” host Joy Reid excoriated the protesters demonstrating against coronavirus lockdowns in the Midwest — and noted their bizarre usage of Confederate iconography in a discussion with presidential historian Jon Meacham.
“I want to put back up this photo of these Ohio protesters that went viral this week,” said Reid. “A lot of people said it looked like a zombie movie. Sombie directors also think so too. It looked like a scene out of the walking dead or whatever. What is this rage that these — that these protesters, one of them is running for office, I should note, one of the people in that office. What is it that they’re trying to channel here?” added Reid. “Is this sort of neo-Confederacy, and what the hell does that have to do with a pandemic?”