Let’s game this out a bit. Say you are a high-profile TV personality with an interest and an ambition to run for president. Positioning yourself as a solutions-minded centrist who has abandoned the party of your youth because it left you with its extreme agenda is a good place to be in an electorate that loathes both political parties and is desperate for other options.

Now what if that same person was also seen — or working to be seen — as someone who was once a friend of President Donald Trump but who has turned into one of his most vocal critics. A person who knows Trump well — so well that he has decided the president is not only out of his depth but in a dangerous state of mind.

“Him getting elected has just amplified all of his insecurities,” Scarborough told Nuzzi of Trump in a bit of armchair pop psychology.