Joy Talks ‘Joy’: ‘Fun’ Democ­rats vs. ‘Fright­en­ing’ Repub­li­cans

Wednes­day night’s episode of MSNBC’s The Rei­d­Out was a par­tic­u­lar­ly “joy­ful” one. Seri­ous­ly. Host Joy Reid’s obses­sion with how “fun” the Harris/Walz Demo­c­ra­t­ic tick­et is in com­par­i­son to the “fright­en­ing” Repub­li­can tick­et of Trump/Vance was reflect­ed in how many times she men­tioned the word “joy” (i.e. far too many).

Reid opened with a bizarre com­men­tary on the “enthu­si­asm” that had appar­ent­ly returned to Amer­i­can pol­i­tics due to Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Har­ris’ cam­paign and recent run­ning mate pick …