MSNBC chief legal correspondent and host of The Beat, Ari Melber joined author and newsletter publisher Andrew Sullivan on the season premiere of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday where he struggled to defend his employer against Sullivan’s charge that the network is simply “propaganda all the time.”
Sullivan was lamenting the direction of the country, Donald Trump, and the Democratic Party when he declared, “I think what Trump set in motion and what the divisions of the country has done and what the Democrats have done in the last four years which is respond to Trump by going even further to the left means that we are losing the legitimacy of the system and that is the critical thing.”
He further claimed “When you lose that core legitimacy, you lose democracy, that’s where we are really going to lose our…
