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April 3, 2025 - Lionel Nation
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Elie Mystal Trashes Founding Fathers—And Gets TORCHED
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In the event you haven't heard this gentleman, you've missed a lot.
This is the latest version of what many people, I think, mistakenly refer to as crazy.
It's not crazy.
Very, very smart.
Absolutely the pinnacle, dare I say, of hilarity.
His name is Ellie Mistel.
I hope I'm pronouncing his name correctly.
And he is the new Michael Eric Dyson.
Michael Eric Dyson was also this African-American firebrand who used deliberately obtuse and confused wording in order to convey and provide this kind of a...
Kind of a lunatic version of something.
You know, the angry black man.
And he was okay for a while.
But this fellow, he is something.
And he is everywhere.
And I want you to be aware of him.
And I want you to understand who he is and why he's important and why you should pay attention.
He is the justice.
I love this.
By the way, you know, typical Ivy League, Harvard educated and all that stuff.
He is the justice correspondent for The Nation.
And he's a frequent commentator on MSDNC and on The View.
And you've seen him with that shock of white hair.
You know who had...
This is weird.
Remember Ethel Waters, the singer, had that cut of the hair?
Of course, people are going to say, you're racist!
Why?
Because she had white...
Anyway, doesn't matter.
So he's made numerous statements that have, as you can imagine, sparked some controversy from people, particularly among conservative critics and people with two brain cells, who label them as inflammatory, racially insensitive, racially charged, racist, hyperbolic, and frankly, bullshit.
So here is just an idea of what you've been missing, if you've missed the remarks that have been attributed and quoted to him, and why using words like insane or racist, I don't know, again, he's not insane.
Racist, remember, if a white person said this with it inverted, he'd be arrested, okay?
But it's this, it's this, the last gasp of the radical woke Who is trying?
Who doesn't know the war is over?
Doesn't understand that Bill Maher is at the White House and that it's just over with.
It's done.
It ran its course.
It went the way of the COVID sticker and the six-foot rule.
They're vestiges.
They're bastions of a time that are over.
Similar to that Japanese soldier who didn't know the war was over.
Remember that fellow?
I think in the 70s, they had to relieve him of duty.
He would not.
Leave his post until he was officially relieved by the hierarchy.
Anyway, that's Mr. Mistel.
So these examples, I think, reflect a kind of a, oh, I don't know, provocative style and a focus on race and systemic racism.
And to me, it's performative anti-racism.
Critiquing American institution, delivering the strong rhetoric and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
On white people and violence.
This is from September of 2022.
He was on MSDNC and he claimed, this is his quote, this is a quote, this is literally, whenever you see literally, you know how my penchant for that.
Anyway, this is literally what conservative white folks do when they don't get their way.
They turn violent.
White people turn violent when they don't politically get their way all the damn time in this country.
It's what they do.
Do they?
Critics such as those on conservative outlets call this sweeping, you know, baseless generalization about white people.
But also I'm thinking, white people are violent?
Is it January 6th?
BLM?
Antifa?
Do you remember this?
Remember when Don Lemon said, looks peaceful to me?
And people, of course, are accusing him of racism by attributing violence to an entire racial group.
But that's okay, because when you're black and when you're, you know, conservative, nobody will question you.
You can say whatever you want.
Now, on the Founding Fathers, our political forebears, our constitutional forebears, in May of 2022, on the Read Out show, She's out, all right, on the Joy Read Out.
Mr. Mistel described the Founding Fathers as, quote, racist, misogynistic, excuse me, tries again, racist, misogynist, jerk faces.
Jerk faces who didn't believe that women had any rights at all, arguing that their failure to recognize abortion as a fundamental right stemmed from this bigotry.
James Mattis?
I mean...
You see what he's saying?
He further stated that they didn't believe, quote, marital rape was a thing.
Really?
Critics viewed this as an unhinged attack on historical figures and complete and total nonsense.
This is Ellie Mistel.
This is the voice.
This is the intellectual voice of the active black...
Whatever.
On the Constitution, In March of 2022, it was a good year for him, he repeatedly called the U.S. Constitution, quote, actually trash.
Did you hear that?
Actually trash.
Notably, in an interview with Salon and in the book Allow Me to Retort, A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution, that's a real barn burner and a great stocking stuffer, he argued it was, quote, written by slavers and colonists and white people.
We're willing to make deals with slavers and colonists, excluding black and brown people and women from its creation.
And conservative folks, of course, labeled this as an extreme and racially divisive stance and blah, blah, blah, blah.
But that's the way it does.
On Herschel Walker and Black Americans, listen to this, in August of 2022, on MSDNC's The Cross Connection.
Remember that one?
No.
Mr. Mistal said of Georgia Senate candidate Hershel Walker, quote, that's what Republicans want from their Negroes, to do what they were told.
Suggesting that Mr. Walker lacked independent thought and was a token for the white Republican interest.
He contrasted, quote, black conservatives with tokens, these are his words, who are out here right now shucking and jiving for their white handlers.
And this drew, of course, considerable outrage from white conservatives and the like.
On white voters in President Trump, in January of this year, reacting to President Trump's pardoning of January 6 rioters, as they called them, I think they were people who didn't get their parade permit.
On MSDNC, of course, Mr. Mistel said, quote, a majority of white people voted for this.
This is the disgusting version of America that people want.
And by the way, Eggs are still more expensive, so you didn't even get that great job, white folks.
Critics, of course, I mean, just went, as you can imagine, slamming him as racially charged rant, these incantations of lunacy and the like, accusing him of blaming white people collectively on voter registration laws in March, just last month, in a segment on MSDNZ.
And they wonder why they're being disengorged, disengaged, or disengaged from NBC.
Mr. Mistal called for eliminating all voter registration laws, claiming, of course, that they are racist and xenophobic.
Do you hear this?
And people were considering him as, calling him, of course, unhinged.
His rants were discombobulated logoria, arguing it's irresponsible.
It frames a basic electoral process as a tool of racial oppression.
And on laws before 1965, this month, and I think it might have been on The View, he goes on all the good ones, he reportedly says, why give an F, that's right, the F word, why give an F, About laws old white males did.
Advocating for scrapping all laws predating 1965, according to posts that suggested this was prior to the 1965 voters, that these laws prior to that should be completely removed.
On systemic racism and white ignorance, whatever that means, in 2021 of November, in a Nation article entitled, White People Explain Racism to Me, Mr. Mistel wrote, quote, I'm forced to conclude.
That most white people just don't get the core concept of systemic racism and described white defenses of police actions as, quote, embarrassing and rooted in hubris.
Critics argue that this paints white people as inherent, obtuse, or complicit, fueling racial division.
Do you think?
Now, contents...
Of this have also been reviewed.
This is the most important.
The context and perspective that his defenders argue is that these statements are admittedly hyperbolic.
They're critiques of systemic issues.
They talk about slavery and racial inequality.
And this isn't really a personal attack.
Look, let me just put it to you this way.
You could not have a better adversary than this.
Because what he doesn't understand is that what plays to his crowd, which of course is what he's interested in, because the people who buy his books and go hear him are people who want to hear what he has to say.
But if you're really trying to make a change, really trying to change the world, you have to not insult people, which is what he does.
So I say, along with this Catherine Maher, whatever her name is from NPR, make sure people know this.
Make sure there was a separate division and people, great people like on X. I want people to know this.
Because if you have any idea of what happens, if the pendulum swings back, people like this, people with these ideas are going to run the show.
And you know what that means.
Four more years of that horror, which explains to many people why I'm saying, President Trump, I'm going to give you so much leeway.
Anything, you freed me.
Talk about freedom and slavery.
You freed me from the slavery of this horror called the Biden administration.
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