MSNBC Historian Michael Beschloss Claims History Books and TV Political Commentary May Be Banned if Trump Wins

MSNBC historian Michael Beschloss warned that it was an “open question” as to whether “historians” would be “allowed to write books” on the 2024 presidential election, hinting that a win for former President Donald Trump could see widespread censorship.

Beschloss appeared on Morning Joe on Tuesday broadcast in interview with host Willie Geist, who noted that election day felt like a “hinge day.”

“This does feel in many ways like a hinge day,” Geist said, “which is to say we’re going down one of two very different paths by perhaps tomorrow morning.”

Agreeing, Beschloss took the assessment a step further, claiming that historians would be looked back on as a day “that America made a choice between freedom” and “dictatorship.”

If historians in the future are allowed to write books, and by the way, that question is open this morning, and if people are allowed to go on television and say what they think in the future, which again, that question is open this morning, in the future, historians are going to look back on this day and say this is the day that America made a choice between freedom and democracy on one side and authoritarianism and dictatorship.

He continued: “You have to give Donald Trump credit for this. He’s been very straightforward. He has said, if you elect me, you’re going to get violence, you’re going to get dictatorship. Or at least today, he has made it very clear what’s going to happen. That’s a campaign promise. And what I cannot understand is that half the country seems to think that that’s fine.”

Watch above, via MSNBC.