For anyone waking up out of a coma in 2017, the feeling must truly be like one of setting foot in an alternate, bizarro universe: Donald Trump is president; the CIA is a reputable source of information; and former Fox News and now NBC host Megyn Kelly is gaining a reputation as a well-respected journalist.

The deification of Kelly has been a long time coming, slowly but surely, as the now ex-Fox anchor dared to transgress more and more conservative norms on primetime television over the past few years. It has all culminated in Kelly’s shock announcement two days ago that she was leaving Fox News — the network that over the last decade nurtured her talents, gave her a national platform, and provided her with more than a fair share of unpleasant memories — to join NBC, becoming one of the few of the conservative network’s personalities to try make the leap to the same mainstream media despised by the channel and its viewers.

The seminal moment for Kelly’s gradual transformation into liberal media hero can probably be pinpointed to 2011, when Kelly, fresh from maternity leave, carried out a righteous takedown of a radio host’s labeling the paltry twelve weeks of unpaid leave mothers receive in the United States a “racket.”