“Morning Joe” co-hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough painstakingly read out New York Times opinion columnist Maureen Dowd’s entire editorial on how “identity politics” killed the Democratic 2024 election bid.

Dowd’s piece, “Democrats and the Case of Mistaken Identity Politics,” was published in Saturday’s edition but was read in full on Monday’s “Morning Joe” show in a segment that lasted almost 10 minutes.

In her column, Dowd slammed the Democratic Party’s laser focus on wokism, which is shorthand for “identity politics,” arguing it alienated key voter groups and contributed to recent election losses, including former President Donald Trump’s landslide victory over Vice President Kamala Harris.

“The party embraced a worldview of hyper-political correctness, condescension and cancellation, and it supported diversity statements for job applicants and faculty lounge terminology like ‘Latinx,’ and ‘BIPOC’ (Black, Indigenous, People of Color),” Dowd wrote.

“This alienated half the country, or more. And the chaos and antisemitism at many college campuses certainly didn’t help,” she added.

While Trump attracted a diverse coalition, Dowd explained that Democrats’ perceived elitism, political correctness, and identity-focused language drove many away.

The columnist argued that working-class and moderate voters felt neglected by the party’s progressive agenda and campus-style activism, adding that Trump “played to the irritation of many Americans disgusted at being regarded as insensitive for talking the way they’d always talked.”

Dowd said the left needs to rethink its approach, citing outspoken Democratic strategist James Carville. She wrote that he said the party had “become enamored of ‘identitarianism’ — a word he uses because he won’t say ‘woke’ — radiating the repellent idea that ‘identity is more important than humanity.'”

The writer noted that the party should instead focus on reconnecting with rural and working-class Americans to regain their traditional base.

Brzezinski, who kicked off the reading of the piece, said:

“I think a lot of people have already been talking about this. We have a lot of calls about this piece. It’s an interesting message for Democrats … It really crystallized how some Democrats are waking up and realizing that woke is broke.”

As Brzezinski began to read, clips flashed on the screen, illustrating Dowd’s words, such as a clip of Trump on the campaign trail lamenting not being able to call women “beautiful” and another clip of a CNN contributor criticizing the “trashing” of campuses in political protests.

Dowd’s piece also addressed the abortion issue as well as the hot-button topic of transgender athletes competing in women’s sports, and how it divided voters.

“Democrats learned the hard way in this election that mothers care both about abortion rights and having their daughters compete fairly and safely on the playing field,” the columnist wrote.

The MSNBC morning show flashed a graphic of the quote, hammering home Dowd’s point.

Scarborough took over the reading of the second half of Dowd’s column, which cited a chart from the Financial Times that revealed that white progressives “hold views far to the left of the minorities they champion.”

When he finished reading the piece, Scarborough said: “We could talk about this for four hours. I’m looking at this, and it’s stuff we’ve talked about on this show about.”