The hashtag #FireChuckTodd was trending on Twitter overnight as the MSNBC anchor faced a social media backlash for quoting a column that described Bernie Sanders supporters as a “digital brownshirt brigade.”
During a Monday segment on the New Hampshire primary taking place today, Todd complained about being on the “receiving end of the Bernie online brigade” before quoting an article by Jonathan Last in The Bulwark that likened supporters of the Jewish candidate to Nazi paramilitaries.
His decision to quote the conservative outlet outraged supporters of the Vermont senator, who took up the #FireChuckTodd hashtag and described the segment as “indefensible.”