Nobody was expecting leftwing tv journalists to be anything short of bitter on the day Donald Trump assumed the office of the Presidency for the second time. But for anyone hoping to get a good chuckle out of the CNN and MSNBC panelists’ emotional reactions and tortured analysis, the coverage did not disappoint.
Panelists on both liberal cable networks scoffed at Trump’s inaugural speech, panning it as “dark” and reminiscent of his 2016 “American carnage” speech. CNN’s David Axelrod complained:
This was sort of an “American carnage” burger in a “golden era” bun. The front and the back had something uplifting; the middle of it was very familiar, sort of dystopian rhetoric — that he ran on, to be fair — that included his persona grievances and some false assertions.
Over at MSNBC, Lawrence O’Donnell was theatrically…
