MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Drops The Big ‘D’ Word On Trump In Alarming Authoritarianism Rant

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow dropped a big “D”-word on President Donald Trump as she told viewers that “we have crossed a line” and are now living in a “consolidating dictatorship.”

On Monday night’s edition of MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, the host opened her show with a blistering marathon commentary that included a riff on how the long-dreaded “thing we were all warning about for the last few years” isn’t coming — “it’s here”:

RACHEL MADDOW, MSNBC HOST: We have crossed a line. We are in a place we did not want to be, but we are there.

The thing we were all warning about for the last few years is not coming. It is here. We are in it. This is what it likes. It turns out this is what it`s like, right? I mean, it`s August, it`s a Monday. Every day the sun rises and the sun sets.

And there are, you know, sports and movies and there are new hit songs. There are scandals here and there. There are crimes. There`s everybody`s personal quotient of family drama and health worries and money worries and falling in and out of love and in and out of faith.

Life has not stopped and none of our personal lives have stopped. But also at the same time, life in the United States is profoundly changing. It`s profoundly different than it was even six months ago, because we do now live in a country that has an authoritarian leader in charge.

We have a consolidating dictatorship in our country. And it sounds melodramatic to say it, I know, but just go with that for a minute, right? Think — think in melodramatic terms. Think in cinematic terms. Imagine the cartoon level caricature of what you think a dictatorship looks like.

I mean, it`s secret police, right? A massive anonymous unbadged, literally masked, totally unaccountable internal police force that apparently has infinite funding but no identifiable leadership. And they act in ways designed to instill maximum fear and use maximum force.

I mean, when you imagine an authoritarian country, right, what you imagine is masked secret police breaking people`s car windows and snatching people off the streets and out of church parking lots and courtroom hallways and taking them away with no charges, no notice, no paperwork, no explanation, not letting them see lawyers and then moving them secretly to what are effectively black site prisons where they won`t tell you who`s there and where no one is allowed in to see what`s going on.

Watch above via MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show.