Leading off Thursday’s MTP Daily on MSNBC, host and NBC political director Chuck Todd did his best Chicken Little impression, staging through a hoarse voice an uncomfortable meltdown that declared America was in the midst of a “national nightmare” with President Trump “attack[ing]” our democracy.

So not only did Todd flaunt his support for impeachment while imploring Americans to come together and overthrow the Trump administration, but he later insulted millions on the right by painting them as what ills our political division (just like he did last week with one Republican Senator and in a commentary in December).

First, Todd’s deranged monologue that CNN’s Brian Stelter tweeted out like a jazzed fanboy. Todd told viewers seconds into the program that “I don’t say this lightly, but let's be frank, a national nightmare is upon us” and that “[t]he basic rules of our democracy are under attack from the President.”

Now, one could take Todd seriously, but the problem has been that Todd and his liberal pals have been going DEFCON-1 since Trump was elected. And even if this were a five-alarm fire with the future of the country in doubt, it’s remarkable how little faith Todd has in, well, anyone. But for him in particular, previous apocalyptic examples can be found here, here, here, here, here, and here.

Referring to the President’s comments to reporters outside the White House, Todd proclaimed that Trump’s “series of admissions....all but assures his impeachment in the House of Representatives.” Acting like the pompous, self-described “referee,” Todd bludgeoned Republicans for being “largely silent” on what’s “a moment of truth.”

Doing what he’s previously done, Todd hid behind the Founding Fathers to level more partisan claims (click “expand”):

So what you just heard is a public admission of the allegations of the heart of the House’s impeachment inquiry and at the heart of the whistleblower's complaint. That the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, is using the power of his office to solicit inference in the 2020 presidential election while doing it, relying on a debunked conspiracy theory or two....This moment should arguably be a national emergency. The Founding Fathers would have considered it a national emergency if the President publically lobbied multiple foreign governments to interfere in the next election and yet there has been virtually no condemnation from the President's party at all for this remark which was remarkable considering the precedent it would set and the lasting damage it would do to our democracy. It’s tough to say lightly, but this is the moment that we’re at.

A few minutes later, Todd brought in liberal historian Michael Beschloss to “bring this back to the Founders cause” and their fears about foreign countries wanting to topple America following the Revolutionary War to then suggest Trump was dishonoring them.

The pair then pivoted to blaming the collective right (and not anyone on the left) but especially congressional Republicans for not being as split as they would like or oppose the current President in the same way past parties did with presidents.

Beschloss lamented that “Republicans and the grassroots, according to the polls, loved Donald Trump,” while Todd expressed a repugnance for the tens of millions on the right for being too rigid and bemoaning how other Republicans weren’t listened to during the 2016 cycle.

Now, that would be fair if it weren’t for the fact that the liberal media elevated Trump and buried his competitors.

Todd continued airing his dismay with the right and, of course, Beschloss agreed by even assuring him that this wasn’t a situation of The Boy Who Cried Wolf (click “expand”):

TODD: Republicans find — have decided that they're afraid of condemning the behavior even if they say for they’re not for impeachment because it’s 100 percent fealty. BESCHLOSS: That's where this is coming from and so what you don't see is with FDR and with LBJ, which is their own party in Congress saying I’m for some of the things that you are doing and not for others. TODD: A lot of people sounded the alarm about Donald Trump three years ago. Today should be a moment that should be speaking louder to folks. It’s obviously not. Maybe — maybe I am wrong but it does not feel like it is. Is this a case that — that the wolf — we’ve been crying wolf for too long? BESCHLOSS: No, it is a case of enormous support for Trump and the fact that, especially in the Senate, there are very fe — very few people are going to get in the way of that. Of all the things the framers did to restrain presidents, the one they dependant on most of all was — TODD: The legislative. BESCHLOSS: — Congress to say we disagree.

The interview ended with Todd noting how the legislative branch has willingly given away power to the executive branch. Like above, that would be a fair point and, in this case, a masterfully conservative one. But once again, it wasn’t to be thanks to Todd’s framing to mean that Congress hasn’t impeached and removed a president he doesn’t like yet.

Beschloss concluded by flashing his liberal elitism, asserting that Congress will remain weak “as long as Donald Trump dominates this party at the grassroots.”

What Beschloss overlooked due to his partisan blindness was that, if the left retained Congress, far-left ideologies involve mass expansions of the executive branch’s bureaucratic state at the expense of the legislative. Oops.

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To see the relevant transcript from MSNBC’s MTP Daily on October 3, click “expand.”