Rachel Maddow, an MSNBC anchor, contended that former President Trump’s re-election message revolves around his promise to become a strongman leader who would effectively end politics in the U.S.
According to Maddow, Trump’s pitch entails eliminating the need for politics, contested elections, and power struggles, essentially providing a simplified, strongman-led governance.
She argued that Trump’s appeal lies in his dictatorial ambitions, setting him apart from other Republican candidates.
“Donald Trump is not leading the Republican Party and leading the Republican field of candidates because of his youthful vigor or because of his eloquence. None of that is going on,” Maddow said.
“What he’s offering is what he both inherently offers and now, more and more, explicitly offers, which is that ‘if you pick me, that’s the end of politics.'”
“You won’t have to deal with politics anymore. You won’t have to deal with contested elections. You won’t have to deal with contests or divisions when it comes to power. You’ll have a strongman leader, and I’ll just do what I want. Won’t that be a lot simpler?” Maddow said.
“That’s what he’s offering,” she said. “That strongman model is what the Republican base is enthused about. That sets him apart from every other Republican candidate. And I think that we’re naive to think that he’s tricking people into picking him and then surprised that he’s going to act like a dictator.”
“What he’s offering is strongman leadership, the end of politics, the end of elections,” Maddow said. “He’ll be the man in charge and he’ll get it done.”
“That’s what he’s selling and that’s what they’re very eager to buy,” she added.
Trump has refuted these claims, dismissing them as a “hoax” and asserting that accusations of threatening democracy are unfounded.
He noted that many on the left “think the threat to democracy will save Biden from having created the worst inflation in our country’s history, a fragile economy that may soon end in a depression like 1929 … We are very, very close to a depression, the likes of which you have never seen. We owe $36 trillion and this guy has no clue.”
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