MSNBC's Mehdi Hasan took the American media to task for their failure to inform the public about the very real danger to democracy Trump represents if he makes his way back into the White House.

I don't know what prompted the decision by MSNBC's management to cancel Hasan's show at MSNBC and Peacock, but I personally feel they screwed the pooch on this one. Whether you agree with all of Hasan's views or not, I think it's a mistake removing his voice from the airways, and he's one of the best interviewers out there if you want to watch someone in action who's prepared, has done their homework, and will dismantle any liar that's foolish enough to come on the air with him.

He's still around for a few more weeks hosting his weekend show, and like his MSNBC counterpart Jen Psaki, Hasan took a lot of shots at Trump, the crazy crap that's come out of his mouth over the last few weeks, and the direct threat to their network, but unlike Psaki, Hasan also went after his cohorts in the press for falling down on the job.

HASAN: Nearly three years ago, in February, 2021, I launched the show an MSNBC right here, live on a Sunday night, with a warning about how Donald Trump and the MAGA GOP were threatening our democracy and how journalists needed to wake up to that threat, speak out about that threat. Watch.

People sometimes say journalists shouldn't be biased. No, journalists should have a bias, a bias towards democracy. We should be proudly pro democracy and proud to call ourselves Democrats. Small d Democrats.

Nearly three years later, I worry that too many journalists, too many pundits, too many in our media have yet to take that mission statement urgently or seriously enough, even as a disgraced, defeated, twice impeached, four times indicted insurrection-inciting ex-president runs again for the White House and even leads Joe Biden in multiple polls.

Just think about the past few weeks, in which The New York times revealed that a second Trump term would involves sweeping raids, giant camps, and mass deportations. The past few weeks in which the Washington Post revealed that Trump was preparing for a second term in office by name individuals he wants to investigate or prosecute, and his associates drafting plans to potentially invoke the insurrection act on his first day in office to allow him to deploy the military against civil demonstrations. The past few weeks, in which Trump threatened to go after this network, MSNBC, once he's back in power, and repeatedly referred to his political opponents as vermin, echoing Nazi propaganda.

Do you think the wider media in this country over the past few weeks has sufficiently conveyed the extent of the threat facing America from the second Trump term? I've spent enough time and energy addressing and sharing these plans and remarks from the former, and possibly future president? You, because you watch the show or because you watch MSNBC, may have heard these things discussed. Maybe rightly concerned about the prospects of a second Trump authoritarian term in office.

But are your friends, your coworkers, your neighbors, your kids sufficiently concerned? Appropriately aware? How many of them even know about Trump calling millions of Americans vermin? Do you think it got the same coverage as Hillary Clinton saying deplorables in 2016? Or have we become numb to the Trumpian threat? Have we normalized it? Have we continued to grade Trump and his authoritarian acolytes on a curve? Have we become the frog in the boiling fascist plot?

In fact, forget the past few weeks. Just consider what Donald Trump was saying, ranting yesterday, in a speech in Iowa, that the elections in this country are so rigged, apparently, that they weren't rigged, and if there was divine supervision, he, Trump, would win California and New York and Illinois. No, really.

TRUMP: But I think if you had a real election and Jesus came down and God came down and said, I'm gonna be the score keeper here, I think we'd win there. I think we'd win in Illinois, and I think we'd win in New York.

HASAN: So, there was, as ever, the big lie. The dangerous delusional authoritarian big lie that you just heard a version of. There was also the casual racist threat of voter intimidation in cities with large black populations.

TRUMP: So the most important part of what's coming up is to guard the vote. And you should go into Detroit, and you could go into Philadelphia, and you should go into some of these places, Atlanta, and you should go into some of these places, and we've gotta watch those votes when they come in.

HASAN: There was the now predictable praise and admiration for foreign dictators.

TRUMP: Can you imagine president Xi, who's a piece of granite, he's tough and smart, he's at the top of his game.

HASAN: And our very stable genius who brags about being able to read a prompter better than sleepy Joe Biden even ended up accidentally telling the truth about the threat he poses to American democracy when he misread his prompter.

TRUMP: We've been waging an all out war On American democracy.

HASAN: Yes. Yes, he has. And yet, that fact, that undeniable, unavoidable fact, that Trump has been waging a war on American democracy, hasn't been given the significance and attention and concern that it deserves. Why does it seem that the person the most concerned about the threat of a second Trump presidency is, of all people, Republican Liz Cheney?

CHENEY: People who say, well, if he's elected, it's not that dangerous because we have all these checks and balances, don't fully understand the extent to which the Republicans in Congress today have been co-opted. One of the things that we see happening today is a sort of sleepwalking into a dictatorship in the United States.

HASAN: I agree 100 percent with Liz Cheney, and no, I did not think those would be words that would ever come out of my mouth. Still, too many people, journalists, citizens, politicians, have decided to turn a blind eye to Trump's rhetoric, Trump's threats, Trump's plans for a second term. Have pretended to be more concerned about Joe Biden's age or the threat of inflation, and have decided to treat this coming election in less than a year as just another normal presidential election, you know, Bill Clinton vs Bob Dole.

It's madness. It's dangerous, denialist, madness, and I'm sorry, but it ends in only one place, the end of American democracy. Don't take my word for it, for once, take Donald Trump's.

As I said in my post on Psaki, when someone tells you who they are, believe them. Hasan is right there with me.