Republicans are knowingly leading their party into political disaster by backing President Donald Trump as he and his FCC chairman, Brendan Carr, jawbone Disney into suspending late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel for criticizing the GOP's response to the slaying of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, argued former Rep. Max Rose (D-NY) on MSNBC's "Deadline: White House" Friday.

A few conservatives are crying foul over the whole situation, with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) lauding the firing but calling Carr's threats against Disney "dangerous as hell" and akin to mob boss tactics — but, noted anchor Alicia Menendez, "He is not the only Republican who's been talking about this," and most have said they're totally unbothered by even that aspect of things.

Menendez played numerous clips of Republicans refusing to condemn the situation, with Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) flatly denying there was any government intervention against speech and saying, "I think Jimmy Kimmel was taken off air because he's an unfunny activist ... this isn't the government model. This is, this is Disney."

"Okay, I just want to follow their logic for a second because it's not like he — let's say he was unfunny, right? It's not that he turned unfunny on the same day that the FCC chair just happens to say, 'we can do this the easy way or the hard way,' and the next hour changes their mind," Menendez said, turning to Rose.

"Oh, they are so desperate for the subject to change here, because this tap-dancing is really obvious," said Rose. "But what's also obvious is just the dramatic about-shift they have made about cancel culture. I mean, these were the folks that were saying in an election less than a year ago that the other side are snowflakes. The other side would want to cancel everything you're saying. All this woke stuff, one could actually argue, was a relatively significant issue in the last election. And now, just because Donald Trump has said something — they haven't read one poll that shows this Jimmy Kimmel issue is a good one for them. In fact, it's obviously massively unpopular. But just because Donald Trump said something, they are all falling in line and falling on their sword."

"So it's yet another indication that they will even commit political suicide, just in strict subservience to him as fully-owned subsidiaries of Donald Trump and MAGA Incorporated," Rose added.

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