Prof. Snyder is recognized as one of the foremost experts on authoritarianism in the world. He knows the warning signs when he sees them, and can recognize when democracies start to fail and turn to other more tyrannical forms of governance. One of the key elements is a free and fair election system. So when NBC hired someone who openly tried to subvert the last presidential election, as then RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel did, Snyder had to say something.

Not hiring someone who tried to undermine the democratic system of the United States does not sound like too much to ask, does it?

Source: Mediaite

Yale history professor Timothy Snyder told MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace on Monday that NBC News hiring former RNC chief Ronna McDaniel is “pretty bad.”

Snyder wrote the book, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, from which Wallace read a passage to open the segment.

“What NBC has done is they’ve invited into what should be a normal framework, someone who doesn’t believe that that framework should exist at all,” Snyder began, adding:

What NBC has done of its own volition is bring into a very important conversation about democracy, one which is going to take place for the next seven months or so, someone who — Ronna McDaniel — who tried to disassemble our democracy. Who personally took part in an attempt to undo the American system.

And, so, bringing that in without questioning it is obeying the advance. Because what NBC is doing is saying, “Well, could be that in ’24, our entire system will break down. Could be we’ll have an authoritarian leader. Oh, but look, we’ve made this adjustment in advance because we’ve brought into the middle of NBC somebody who has already taken part in an attempt to take our system down.” So yeah, I think this is pretty bad.