MSNBC host Rachel Maddow expressed concern about the rise of authoritarianism and potential fascism in the U.S. following Donald Trump’s victory in the Iowa caucuses.
She highlighted the Republican Party’s flirtation with extremism on the ultra-right and the radicalization of a significant portion of the American right, emphasizing that this is more than just a problem with one man, but rather a Republican Party issue.
She suggested that there is an authoritarian movement within Republican politics that is not solely driven by Trump, indicating a larger problem within the party. (Trending: 2024 Miss America Winner Crowned)
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Maddow said, “If we are worried about the rise of authoritarianism in this country, we are worried about potential rise of fascism in this country. We’re worried about our democracy falling to an authoritarian and potentially fascist form of government.”
“The leader who is trying to do that is part of that equation. But people wanting that is a much bigger part of that expression,” she continued.
Maddow claimed both parties have been “flirting with extremism on the ultra right for a very long time.”
“They’ve brought them in, in a way that they haven’t been central to Republican electoral politics ever before. And I know because I’ve been studying this. But once you have radicalized one major party so that those are the preferences of the people who adhere to your party, the leaders are interchangeable,” she explained.
“And yes, Trumpism is sometimes what we call it. MAGA movement is probably a better way to do it. But there is an authoritarian movement inside Republican politics that isn’t being bamboozled by Trump. They are pushing Trump to get more and more extreme because the more extreme things he says, the more they adhere to it,” said Maddow.
“And that is coming from a very large proportion of the American right that adheres to the Republican Party and that’s why this is a Republican Party problem more than it is the problem of one man and his legal issues,” she added.
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