One of the questions that a lot of people are struggling with in America right now is how.

How did it happen that Donald Trump was reelected to the American presidency?

There's a lot of answers to the question.

There are some simple ones, some big ones.

But one of the answers and one of the causes is the absolute brokenness,

cynicism of America's corporate access media model. This is the warning. Now, in a normal time,

silliness attached to journalism is completely harmless. Fatuousness and fecklessness

are no big deal. Obviously, at some level, if you're the anchor person making $10 million a year

hosting four hours of morning television, you live in a rarefied space. You are on top of the

pyramid. And what comes with that is a lot of people who flatter you. When you're on top,

that flattery can have a disorienting effect. It can make you diluted and disoriented.

Now, Mika Brzezinski is not a bad person.

Mika Brzezinski is a television presenter.

She's not a diplomat.

She's not an elected official.

She doesn't hold a position in the society that's better, more enlightened, or

wiser than anybody else. She is covering on a show which her husband incepted and founded

in which she became the co-host many, many years ago. And the show,

which I've been on many times, was fresh and exciting and completely different, and people liked

it. And the conversations that were had were utterly oppositional to all of the crapola that John Stewart confronted

on shows like Crossfire when he went on and put a finger in Tucker Carlson's face and told him

how bad he was for the country. Morning Joe isn't bad for the country until it was. Morning Joe is one of the reasons

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