Cancel culture before it had a name

The "Defenestration of Buchanan" and a real-life Mississippi legal thriller

A dozen years or so ago, I used to keep a much different schedule and MSNBC, though tilting aggressively leftward, did not have as its editorial policy “to hate each and every American with impunity” as it does now.

I watched Morning Joe regularly. Generally, the show was quite intelligent. Lots of panel discussions, rather than the hot-take debate situa…