Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Victor Davis Hanson discussed with SiriusXM’s Megyn Kelly why he believes MSNBC became more radical after the 2020 election. He says it is because MSNBC misread the voters. They probably believed that Biden won the election honestly.
On Sunday, rumors that Joy Reid was about to lose her show surfaced. And now, two more shows hosted by left-wing anchors Katie Phang and Jonathan Capehart were also kicked to the curb, but they will be remaining at MSNBC—or as I call them, PMSDNC—while Reid was shown the door. Her show lost 55% of her audience since Trump won in November. Hanson also credited the “MeToo” movement and the death of addict George Floyd for MSNBC’s belief that Americans desired unabated radicalism.
Hanson said:
“They were unhinged before George Floyd, but somewhere between ‘Me Too’ 2018-19 and George Floyd after that, they really did miscalculate. They thought that the country, because of their hatred of Donald Trump, and then especially the George Floyd riots, and then the election of Joe Biden. They thought that this was a new frontier, and that Joe Biden, we were into a revolutionary period, and Biden was this useful waxen effigy for all of these Obama people.”
“They were going to have this radical agenda, and these people at MSNBC, and to a lesser extent CNN, were going to ride this wave and propel it. They could say anything they want, the blinders were off, the muzzles were off, they could say, do anything, and they really did. They didn’t realize the mood of the country, where it was. We were in the middle of a counter-revolution because people were sick of an open border, the whole transgender stuff, the crime, and the foreign policy in Afghanistan.”
WATCH:
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL“I guess when [journalist Jonathan] Capehart says that he thinks that Kamala Harris lost because she was black and female, I guess he thinks that Joe Biden was what? I don’t know. Was he going to win or lose? Because Joe Biden would have lost as much as, I think, Kamala Harris, and he was a white male.”
“So I don’t know what his point is. It’s silly. Nobody in that party was going to win, no matter what color or gender they were, given that the key issues that they were trying to articulate to the American people were polling about 20 or 30 percent support across the board.”
While Democrats have struggled with a singular message to their constituents, President Donald Trump has succeeded in the polls on his favorability. In the Harvard CAPS/Harris February poll, 52% of those surveyed approve of Trump’s job in office, with 58% of respondents saying they are more satisfied with Trump than former President Joe Biden.
In an interview with Fox’s Laura Ingraham on Friday, former Clinton pollster Mark Penn told the host that support for the Democratic Party is “falling off a cliff,” adding that they are out of step on issues that concern voters the most, such as the economy and immigration.
#msnbcratingscollapse #trump2024momentum #mediabiasexposed
