and everybody else i think people have woken up to it, they are seeing it. speed when i need to get your reaction to some hilarious commentary on boris johnson s resignation on msnbc, watch. speak of the rise of right-wing populism in the west may soon be limited to the confines of cable news hosts and a dwindling number of dimwitted representatives in congress. what looks like the age of the right-wing populist with johnson s departure may become due a short end. laura: was boris johnson s unpopularity linked to the fact that he was to populist? no, the opposite. the truth is he adopted brexit and i was very pleased when he did because i fought as you know a long, lonely campaign the truth of it as he got elected as
it s been a loss. i just think people have woken up to it. they re saying it now. so i need to get your reaction to some hilarious commentary on boris johnson s resignation on msnbc. watch the rise of right wing popular in the west may soon be limited to the confines of cable news hosts and a dwindling number of dimwitted representative in congress. congress looks like the age of the right wing populist with johnson s departure may be may be coming to a short, short end was boris johnson s unpopularity. nigel linked to the fact that he was too populist? no, the opposite. the truth of it is he adopted brexit and i was very pleased when he did because i thought, as you know, a long, lonely campaign. but the truth of it is he got
a populist wave that led to brexit s passing, donald trump s victory, and the rise of right-wing populous figures across europe. with johnson s collapse, trump s post-election woes are only accelerating by the day. and with marine le pen s crushing defeat in france, the rise of right-wing populism in the west may soon be limited to the confines of cable news hosts and a dwindling number of dim-witted represents in congress. we ll talk about that coming up. first, let s go live right there to 10 downing street and nbc news senior digital reporter alexander smith. alex, what more can you tell us? reporter: well, we re still waiting, quite frankly. the press cordon across the street from 10 downing street is starting to pack up now. obviously, the reports are widespread that boris johnson does plan to resign today.
now. yeah, well, dhs has told us that we are in for increased more dynamic threat environment for the next few months, and they certainly pointed at things like this, like the expected abortion decision. i want to say this, it s important to understand that violent extremism doesn t spout out of nowhere. it s not a form of spontaneous combustion. it s not happening in a vacuum. it s cultivated and nurtured, and so if you look at things like the buffalo shooting, for example. in fact, look at the walmart el paso shooting, look at the charleston, south carolina, church shooting. what do you see cultivating and nurturing those shooters? you see legitimate or quasi legitimate people, some cable news hosts, even a former president legitimizing the notion that white replacement theory is happening. it s true, something needs to be done about it. similarly, this move, this surge
Characterized by an uncontrollable or insane impulsion to wander. So that was the problem. It wasnt they disliked being enslaved or yearned for freedom and basic humanity, no, no, the problem according to Samuel Cartwright was that black people as a group were inherently defective. They were maniacs, always running away. Thats what he said. 107 years later it is embarrassing to repeat something this stupid out loud. So obviously insane. But heres what you should know. It was taken very seriously at the time and so was Samuel Cartwright. Cartwright was not a french character at all. He was a nationally prominent physician, a highranking officer from fairfax, virginia, peered he went to penn medical school. He was a credentialed man of science, a man who commanded the respect of the country. 50 years after the civil war, one of this nations leading medical dictionaries continued an entry for this. So with retrospect, we would call Samuel Cartwright a bigot, which He Undoubtably was. But