Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Victor Davis Hanson discussed with SiriusXM’s Megyn Kelly on Monday why he believes MSNBC became more “unhinged” after 2020, due to the network’s failure to understand the state of the country under the Democrats.
Reports of MSNBC’s Joy Reid having her show canceled surfaced on Sunday, with two more shows — hosted by left-wing anchors Katie Phang and Jonathan Capehart — also being axed by Monday, according to the New York Post. On “The Megyn Kelly Show,” the SiriusXM host said to Hanson that MSNBC’s decision did not signal a “positive sign” for the network. Hanson responded, saying their “muzzles” came off as early as the #MeToo movement, but especially after the George Floyd riots.
“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,” Hanson said.
“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,” Hanson added. “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 transgendered stuff, the crime, and the foreign policy in Afghanistan.”
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Reid’s 7 p.m. show, where the anchor would go on race-obsessed rants and discuss far-left talking points, was taken off the air. During an address to viewers, Reid was seen breaking down in tears, saying she was “not sorry” that she “stood up” for her statements made on her previous show.
Hanson went on to say that MSNBC “just kept doubling down” despite signs that voters across the U.S. were becoming “angry.” Instead of recognizing their role in pushing a narrative, Hanson said, they “blew themselves up.”
“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,” Hanson said.
“So I don’t know what his point is. It’s silly,” Hanson said. “Nobody in that party was going to win, no matter what color or gender there was, 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.
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