Naval War College Professor Tom Nichols was on MSNBC's Morning Joe Monday morning to opine on the controversy involving Virginia Governor Ralph Northam's 1984 medical school yearbook. Nichols' contribution to the panel was not to criticize the now infamous photo or Northam's Saturday press conference where he retracted his apology. Rather, Nichols blasted Republicans for criticizing Northam, while also defending President Trump.

The context was a recent Washington Post op-ed Nichols wrote entitled, "Sorry, Republicans.You can't call out Northam for racism and give Trump a pass," where he said that Trump supporters have forfeited the right to pass any moral judgments. For Tom Nichols, who made a scene out of leaving the Republican Party (again), a Trump supporter is anybody who does not fully agree with him.

On Morning Joe, Nichols called Republican condemnations of Northam "insulting" and later "appalling" and accused Republicans of trying to convince the public that history began yesterday.

Nichols accused Republicans of treating the public as if they were "dumb," which is ironic considering he has amassed quite the Twitter following by using his PhD to question the intelligence of Trump voters by describing them as "rubes."

Here is a transcript for the February 4 show: