The political micro-drama surrounding Ronna McDaniel’s lost weekend as an NBC News contributor already seems like a blur. It was, after all, only a few weeks after McDaniel’s resignation as chairwoman of the Republican National Committee—a job title she bequeathed to Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump—that McDaniel was snapped up by NBC News in a well-intentioned effort to prove that the network wasn’t afraid of adding a conservative voice to its roster. McDaniel’s first day was Friday, March 22. By Sunday, Chuck Todd was expressing outrage over her hiring on Meet the Press. On Monday, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski picked up the baton, calling McDaniel an “anti-democracy election denier.” That night, Rachel Maddow finished the job, comparing McDaniel to “a wise guy, a made man, like a mobster.” By Tuesday, McDaniel and NBC had “parted ways.”