To be fair he may have misspoken. And even if he didn’t, idiots are regularly promoted above their station in a world where the mis-educated are mistaken for elite. I would say it’s less about “diversity” politics and just par for the course.
“To be fair he may have misspoken.”
Agreed. As I wrote in the original article:
“Nance presumably had in mind Robert Philip Hanssen, a former FBI agent who was convicted in 2001 of spying for the Soviet Union and later the Russians. We’ll call this one an innocent mistake by MSNBC’s expert, but interesting that it came at the expense of a leading conservative.”