Liberals should tread carefully when confronting Trumpism

The hiring and firing of Ronna McDaniel as an NBC News political analyst might seem like a small media tempest, but it does force a reckoning with a much larger issue that will come up again and again in this campaign: how to deal with Donald Trump and his supporters. To recap, McDaniel was chair of the Republican National Committee in November 2020 and tried to pressure local GOP officials not to certify the presidential election results. She also denied that the election had been fair in a television interview.

This is all terrible stuff. We’ve heard so much about this that we sometimes get numbed to its importance. So let me remind us all: Trump was the first president in American history to try to stop the peaceful transfer of power. He incited a crowd to intimidate his own vice president and Republican legislators. And he managed to get a majority of Republican members of the House to vote against certifying the election results of 2020 despite the fact that they had been duly authorized by 50 states and D.C. and affirmed in dozens of court rulings. This is a big deal.

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