Scarborough and Hannity can run from their Trump boosterism, but they shouldn’t be allowed to hide

One of the many signs that Donald Trump is going to lose this election (possibly very badly) is that some of his biggest media supporters/enablers are already starting to either jump ship, or to dive for cover from the inevitable blowback from his defeat. The two best examples of this so far are Joe Scarborough and Sean Hannity.

These two “conservative” TV hosts have handled Trump in different yet similar ways, and both have played key roles in how we got to where we currently are. Now, they are each clearly trying to avoid, also in distinct fashion, paying the price for their important respective parts in this looming disaster.

Scarborough, a former Republican congressman, has hosted two very different shows at MSNBC in his television career (I have been a guest numerous times on both versions). When he was on in the evenings, he was a true-blue conservative. When he moved to the mornings, and after the network made an obvious decision to become the “left-wing” cable outlet, Scarborough suddenly, and surely by coincidence, became the equivalent of a Republican “Uncle Tom.”