I never made the claim MSNBC needs to be more more middle. That's the argument of the MAGAs here and why, they say, Scarborough and Mika visted Trump - - to bolster ratings. I don't watch the show and couldn't care less about their ratings. My point this morning was that they risk alienating their mostly liberal audience by meeting with Trump, and today's liberal backlash supports that idea.
Scarborough was a Republican congressman 25 years ago. He left the party several years ago. I don't know exactly how he currently identifies politically and ideologically, but I do know he wouldn't have lasted 17 years on a lib network, with a lib audience, as a conservative.