ABC’s bombshell decision to pull Jimmy Kimmel ‘s late-night sho w set the legacy media and establishment Democrats into a tailspin on Wednesday evening. They framed the move as a capitulation to a bullying Trump administration.

MSNBC prime-time host Chris Hayes tweeted ominously, “The countries where comedians can’t mock the leader on late-night TV are not really ones you want to live in.”

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CNN’s Brian Stelter , appearing on Anderson Cooper 360, called the move an example of “Orbanism.”

“In Hungary, Victor Orban did many of the things we’re now seeing the Trump administration do,” he said.

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