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Former conservative radio host Charlie Sykes appeared on MSNBC’s MTP Daily on Thursday to promote his new book How the Right Lost Its Mind. And in an embarrassing show of self-flagellation, Sykes whipped himself for his past life of being a conservative radio host before making his way into the arms of the liberal MSNBC as a news analysis. All of his self-loathing was for the amusement of host Chuck Todd, who prodded his guess along, and to get into the liberal network’s good graces.
In introducing Sykes, Todd touted the book for examining how conservative media created the terrible phenomena that was President Trump. “And he also explores his own exile from what the conservative movement has become,” he hyped. He then read from a portion of the book where Sykes partially blamed himself for creating Trump:
He says, quote, “There is no mincing words. For me, 2016 was a brutal, disorienting, disillusioning slog. There came a moment when I realized that conservatives have created an alternative reality bubble and I had perhaps helped shape it.”
“Well, this is why I wrote the book because I'm trying to figure out what just happened to us,” Sykes lamented. “How do we go from the party of Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump? You know, how did we go from William F. Buckley Jr. to Sean Hannity? What happened here?”
According to Sykes, the book “truly chronicles how conservatives have really outsourced much of the thought leadership to crazy town.” He claimed the conservative intellectual tradition had been under attack and no longer existed.
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