On today’s edition of The Editors, Rich is joined by Charlie, Jim, and Noah as they discuss the media’s continued response to Donald Trump’s electoral victory. Rich comments that “Democrats are still absorbing this loss and there are many different ways to react to it.” The co-hosts of Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough, are a notable example.

Charlie weighs in: “Morning Joe went from being a useful crossover show — because remember Joe Scarborough started off as a conservative, and was a conservative on the radio with Scarborough Country, and maintained a lot of his conservatism throughout the early years of Morning Joe. . . . It started off as a useful show and forum for people of different views to debate things with a host who was conservative but open-minded, and it ended up as part of the extended Rachel Maddow universe.”

Charlie says that the show is on the rocks “because whether he should be or not, Donald Trump is a mainstream, long-lived American politician who’s won two terms, who’s now won the popular vote. And Mika and Joe have realized that they’re stranded.”

When it comes to the audiences of left-wing shows, Noah says that they “have just cratered. They disappeared. . . . Brian Stelter retailed this notion that the return of Donald Trump would be great for the bottom line of media vehicles, because there would be the resistance audience. So . . . there would be a bonanza. And that hasn’t happened. The opposite has happened.

“These media venues are going to have to reinterpret their roles and reevaluate how they do coverage of this administration.”

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