Teri KanefieldMar 30, 2024

I took some time to think about the Ronna McDaniel hiring and firing.

The result is that I have written another blog post that has me going against the current.

https://terikanefield.com/the-ronna-mcdaniel-story/

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Some news: I may be back in Nevada doing voter protection work with the Nevada Democrats after several cycles in Georgia. A little closer to home.

The Ronna McDaniel Story - Teri Kanefield

The announcement that NBC / MSNBC hired former RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel as a contributor prompted an “open revolt” by MSNBC “stars,” who went directly to their TV and social media audiences to denounce the hiring because (among other things) McDaniel supported Trump’s lie that the election was stolen. In response to the revolt, the network executives […]

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"Firing a Republican after she made a plea for people to get out of the echo chamber and listen to each other seems problematic to me."

But MSNBC is full of ex-republican pundits and hosts including an ex-rnc chair. No symmetry on Fox to that. This is a shift I expected when I saw demographics change. A lot of R's will migrate and pull D further right. That's what Lincoln project is. That's why Liz Cheney is welcomed there. The D establishment wants business as usual.

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Or, the Democratic establishment wants to work with everyone on #TeamDemocracy to #DefendDemocracy.

There's been little if any change in the laundry list of policies Biden ran on in 2020. Child tax credit restoration, more climate crisis actions, bolstering the care economy, voting rights ...

The only exception is the tactical move to undercut GOP attacks on immigration, which I agree with Anat Shenker-Osorio is the wrong move (see her Rolling Stone op ed).