Pleasure Reid warns MSNBC viewers fascism is ‘already right here’ is last present

“ReidOut” host Pleasure Reid made her last bow on MSNBC by sounding the alarm about “fascism” in America. 

“We start tonight with what I believe is the query; if you end up within the midst of a disaster and particularly a disaster of democracy: How do you resist– when fascism is not simply coming, It is already right here? So, what, if something, are you able to do about it?” Reid started her present Monday. “For one factor, you possibly can attempt to study from historical past, from what folks on this state of affairs, in nations world wide and in America have finished earlier than. As my pal Rachel Maddow at all times says, historical past is right here to assist.” 

“The primary rule is to battle again, to by no means cease resisting. Don’t obey prematurely, as [anti-Trump historian] Tim Snyder put it… Even when it is scary or uncomfortable or inconvenient, simply hold saying no. Or discovering artistic methods to say no in small methods and huge,” she later mentioned. 

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Pleasure Reid kicked off her last present on MSNBC by warning viewers that fascism was “already right here.” (Screenshot/MSNBC)

Reid was later joined by her “comrades in arms” Rachel Maddow, Nicolle Wallace and Lawrence O’Donnell, who all showered her with reward. Reid closed her present by thanking a prolonged checklist of staffers.

Showing on a Zoom name Sunday night time with the group Win With Black Girls, Reid mentioned she had gone by “each emotion” since she realized of her present’s cancelation from “anger, rage, disappointment, harm,” in addition to “gratitude” from the help she has acquired. 

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Whereas holding again tears, Reid declared “my present had worth” and mentioned she wouldn’t apologize for going “onerous” on points like Black Lives Matter, immigrants, the 1619 Challenge, Gaza in addition to her opposition to President Donald Trump.

“I’m not sorry I stood up for these issues as a result of these issues are of God,” Reid mentioned on the Zoom. “And , I am a church woman too, and people are the issues that I used to be taught had been of God. So I am not sorry. I am simply pleased with my present.”

MSNBC canceled “The ReidOut” after almost 5 years. ((Charles Sykes/Charles Sykes/Invision/AP))

Reid’s 7 p.m. ET program, which launched in 2020, can be changed by a present that includes Symone Sanders-Townsend, a former spokesperson to Vice President Kamala Harris, Alicia Menendez and RNC Chair turned MSNBC host Michael Steele, in accordance with a supply accustomed to the plans. The three of them presently co-host a weekend program collectively. 

There was a flurry of programming modifications throughout the Peacock community. “Inside with Jen Psaki” hosted by former Biden White Home Press Secretary Jen Psaki, can be changing “Alex Wagner Tonight” within the 9 p.m. ET timeslot when MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow reverts to Mondays following the top of Trump’s first 100 days in workplace. Wagner will stay with the community as a political analyst.  

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MSNBC is increasing Jen Psaki’s presence in primetime after “The Rachel Maddow Present” returns to solely Mondays.  (William B. Plowman/NBC by way of Getty Photographs)

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Ayman Mohyeldin’s “Ayman Mohyeldin Experiences,” Katie Phang’s “The Katie Phang Present” and Jonathan Capehart’s weekend applications have all been canceled, however the three hosts will stay with the community in several roles.

MSNBC can be in talks so as to add Politico’s Eugene Daniels and New York College regulation professor Melissa Murray to doubtlessly be a part of the community, Fox Information Digital has realized. 

Moreover, NBC’s Lester Holt can be stepping down as anchor of “NBC Nightly Information” later this yr, specializing in his duties as “Dateline” host on a full-time foundation going ahead. 

Fox Information’ Brian Flood and Alexander Corridor contributed to this report.