She simply had to own up to the error of her ways like the good Rev Al Sharpton re: the Tawana Brawley rape hoax or apologize for his past antisemitic rhetoric.

Oh wait.

The strong belief among the MSNBC staffers who rebelled against her hiring is that Ronna went way too far in promoting Trump's many-times-disproven-by-every-$^%&ing-investigation-there's-ever-been assertion that the election was stolen, and in joining Trump in calling the press "the enemy of the people."

Given that, it's very hard to reconcile Ronna then deciding to join the press - especially a left-leaning cable news/Infotainment channel like MSNBC - and admit on Day 1 that the election was in fact not stolen, and that Trump lost fair and square, and that she was just lying about it because that's what the boss wanted and it was her job.

"I was just following orders" seldom works as a defense when you cross a certain line. Ask all the folks the Nuremberg Trials threw in jail following WW2. At some point people seriously need to look around and ask what side they're actually on. By Ronna's own admission she didn't.

The MSNBC staff believes she was complicit in attacking both the free press and democracy. And again: according to Ronna herself on Day 1 of her new employment, they were correct. Some things are real hard to come back from.