Snapstream Recently, the Democratic Party has found itself divided between the establishment wing of the party and a new, much more radical gang of socialists calling for revolutionary changes to party policy. After welcoming the socialist faction into the Democratic Party with open arms the previous day, on Tuesday’s Morning Joe, MS NOW’s Joe Scarborough did a complete 180, attacking “socialist Republicans” for being the real communists in a bizarre and hypocritical rant.Irate that Republicans were calling out the Democrats were embracing the socialist faction that openly embraces Communist figures like Mao Zedong and Karl Marx, Scarborough shouted about how Republicans were somehow the real socialists:This president is seizing control of private companies. That is socialism! That is communism! And our debt, our debt is so massive, Social Security is running out of money. Our debt is so massive that we are now spending- you talk about socialists, these socialist Republicans in Washington DC, now have us for the first time spending more money paying the interest on their debt than we spend on defending our country with money to the armed services. Yesterday, Scarborough was supporting socialists in the Democratic party. Today he's suddenly blaming the "socialist Republicans" for the US debt crisis. Last I checked, the Dems (actually socialist!) are the ones going gung-ho for big spending. The cognitive dissonance is clear. pic.twitter.com/KlU8sltbV4— James Waterman (@jwatermaniv) July 21, 2026 In his ridiculous attack against President Trump’s “socialist” policies, Scarborough appears to have forgotten his freakout about Trump’s cuts to government spending. In fact, everything he accuses Trump of is really just a projection of his own positions. Scarborough himself was terrified by Republican spending cuts back during the Biden administration, yet now he claims to care about the U.S. debt?Scarborough also pretends to care about the armed forces, emphasizing that U.S. debt interest spending has exceeded defense spending. This coming from the guy who has repeatedly endorsed cuts to the military budget and defended radical DEI policies in the military. The only kind of military spending he seems to want is the kind that funds sex-change surgeries for soldiers!Oblivious to his hypocrisy, Scarborough continues his attacks on the “socialist” Republicans, digging deeper into them “seizing control of private companies”:I mean, it's- these people are not spending money like drunken sailors. They're spending money like drunken socialists, and they have the nerve, after seizing tech companies - they have the nerve, after spending us into massive debt, to point fingers at anybody else and say, “Oh look at them! They're the socialists! They're the communists!” No they're not. They need to just look in the mirror if they want to see who the real socialists are.When Scarborough referenced the administration “seizing tech companies,”  he was likely referring to the government’s move to buy minority stakes in a number of U.S. tech giants. Is investing in the stock market is socialist now?On the other hand, he has also argued for the government to break up major tech companies by force, a move that’s much more in line with socialist policy. So which is it, Scarborough? If Trump’s a socialist, are you one too?The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read.MS NOW’s Morning JoeJuly 21, 202607:18:06 a.m. Eastern(...)JOE SCARBOROUGH: And I would just say if I were in that position, you know, you've got the Speaker of the House and Donald Trump talking about communists, talking about socialists.Jon Lemire, I've never seen in my time a president spending more money, blowing more money, centralizing power, seizing the means of production from some of our most powerful tech companies, than this president. This president is seizing control of private companies! That is socialism! That is communism!And our debt, our debt is so massive, Social Security is running out of money. Our debt is so massive that we are now spending- you talk about socialists, these socialist Republicans in Washington DC, now have us for the first time spending more money paying the interest on their debt than we spend on defending our country with money to the armed services.I mean, it's- these people are not spending money like drunken sailors. They're spending money like drunken socialists, and they have the nerve, after seizing tech companies - they have the nerve, after spending us into massive debt, to point fingers at anybody else and say, “Oh look at them! They're the socialists! They're the communists!” No they're not. They need to just look in the mirror if they want to see who the real socialists are.JONATHAN LEMIRE: The call is coming from inside the house, comrade Trump.SCARBOROUGH: Yes.LEMIRE: This is the attack line they've settled on as we head into the midterms. And at least so far, polls suggest it's just not working.(…)