On Monday night’s broadcast of MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, Maddow declared in a twelve-minute-long rant, “We do now live in a country that has an authoritarian leader in charge. We have a consolidating dictatorship in our country,” and later warned of masked secret police “breaking people’s car windows and snatching people off the streets … taking them away with no charges, no notice, no paperwork.”
She urged her viewers to imagine a dystopian dictatorship:
“Secret police … act in ways designed to instill maximum fear,” she began her fantasy, adding that conservatives were “scapegoating immigrants as an internal enemy,” and fantasizing about feeding them to alligators. What Maddow didn’t do was provide evidence, or any credibility to back her claims. She stoked fear, encouraged action, and presented a baseless narrative which targets conservatives as a perceived enemy.
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