Rachel Maddow and the Case of the Imaginary Dictatorship
Kevin McCullough
Rachel Maddow is at it again — eyes to the heavens, voice quivering, as if she’s about to narrate the final act of a Ken Burns documentary entitled “America: The Dark Years.”
This week’s cliffhanger? “We have a consolidating dictatorship in our country.”
In Maddow’s latest monologue, she painted Trump’s America as a police-state nightmare — “secret police” supposedly prowling for immigrants, civil life grinding to a halt, the entire nation undergoing a “profound” transformation in just six months. If you closed your eyes, you’d think she was describing Venezuela with better lighting.
Now, I understand Rachel’s job is to frighten the MSNBC faithful into thinking every Trump policy is a page from the Authoritarian for Dummies handbook. But here’s the thing: none of what’s happening right now is a surprise. Not one iota. In fact, it’s exactly what the voters — you know, the people in that pesky little thing called a constitutional republic — elected him to do.
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