The Republican National Committee chair turned NBC politics analyst Ronna McDaniel “tried to disassemble our democracy” by supporting Donald Trump’s electoral fraud lies and should not be given such a media role, a leading historian said amid uproar over the appointment.

“What NBC has done is they’ve invited into what should be a normal framework someone who doesn’t believe that framework should exist at all,” Timothy Snyder, a Yale professor and author of On Tyrannytold MSNBC, part of the network now employing McDaniel.

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    8 months ago

    Why? If there’s one thing coporate media always does its whore itself out for ratings by any means necessary.

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      8 months ago

      NBC generally doesn’t hire full-throated Trump supporters. But in a broader sense, you’re not wrong.