Bloodbath of non-white anchors at MSNBC following Joy Reid being forced out-racist trump--musk

The changes also signals MSNBC’s desire to lean into its progressive voice for its older viewers (its viewers’ median age is 70, according to The Wall Street Journal), even as Lazarus has reportedly wanted to appeal to more Republicans. The network has seen its primetime audience grow 77 percent since Trump’s inauguration last month after a nosedive following the election, and many of its programs have punched back at the Trump administration’s policies.

Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny, called this "pre-emptive obedience."