Victor Davis Hanson Tells Megyn Kelly Why He Believes MSNBC Became More ‘Unhinged’ After 2020

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