Minutes before Rachel Maddow walked out on our stage, we got word that the House passed Speaker Mike Johnson’s bill to fund the government into the new year. Here’s how @maddowshow reacted.
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Could anyone seriously think this is what the framers intended?
Maddow: ‘This Congress is pitiful.’; Historically weak output from a vital institution –
Rachel Maddow looks at the historically poor performance by the current U.S. congress and notes that while some of its figures may seem clownish and the overall disorder may seem laughable, Congress as an institution is vitally necessary to American democracy, and its degradation by the Republican majority feeds the autocratic slide that would leave decision-making to a single strongman.
Rachel Maddow joins Joy Reid to react to the breaking news that the Colorado Supreme Court has ruled that Donald Trump “is disqualified from holding the office of President under Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution,” noting the magnitude of the decision as well as keeping realistic expectations in mind with regard to the current Supreme Court, where the case is sure to wind up.
While problematic, would-be returned leaders are relatively familiar in a global context, Donald Trump’s hostility toward U.S. allies is a unique strain of this phenomenon.
(The shortcut to Maddow clips on YouTube is MSNBC.com/Rachel.)
Given the litany of ways President Joe Biden has out-performed Donald Trump, there is no shortage of kitchen table issues he could make the focus of his campaign. The defense of American democracy, however, is too urgent to ignore.
Report paints ominous picture of early days of planned second Trump term –
Rachel Maddow talks with Devlin Barrett, national security reporter for The Washington Post, about his reporting on plans by Trump insiders to potentially invoke the Insurrection Act to turn the military on U.S. citizens who might protest a second Trump term in the presidency.
Trump tests Republican Party willingness to follow him into fascism – Rachel Maddow looks at Donald Trump’s recent more open embrace of fascistic language and points out that the one institution that could discourage his autocratic ambitions is the Republican Party he intends to continue to lead.
This is what they do. It speaks different languages. It has different accents, but it’s all the same.
It seems that by the end of his term Trump had figured out the “grown ups in the room” trick.
‘A risk that we simply can’t take’: Why Trump’s erratic lame duck raises red flags –
Former Rep. Liz Cheney talks with Rachel Maddow about why Donald Trump’s staffing changes during his post-election loss lame duck period were not only unusual but represent a dangerous shift in his mindset that portends ominously if he were to win a second term.
“He’s nothing. He is like a walrus snorting.” E.Jean Carroll describes her surprise at how insubstantial Donald Trump’s presence was in court, despite his image and hype.
Maddow: Why does Trump keep talking like a fascist? Because it works.
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Rachel Maddow makes the case that the reason Donald Trump does not change his talking points when people point out that his words are echoing Adolph Hitler and Benito Mussolini is that Trump knows (and new polling of Republican voters shows) how powerfully appealing some people find the ideas that language frames. But just as past democracies found ways to resist autocrats, so too can Americans adopt practices that sap the power of Trump’s appeal.
Stand up.
Say no.
Have guts.
Why E. Jean Carroll’s legal defeat of Donald Trump matters
Other right-wingers who have charismatic leaders like Trump around the world don’t necessarily get behind them when they try violence to stay in power. Our Republicans do.
What a difference a judge makes!
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What it means when Donald Trump is the leader of the party: chaos all the way down to the state level.
Last week Rachel talked about the difficult decision news organizations have to make about videos coming out of Israel and Gaza, particularly when the source is Hamas and the subject is hostages. We are still seeing folks refer back to Rachel’s presentation of the issues in question as the challenge remains as fresh now as it was when the crisis began, so we present it here for your consideration.
(The particular clip Rachel is talking about here is part of her interview with Yaniv Yaakov about his abducted family members. You can find the full video at http://Rachel.msnbc.com.)
“It’s an exercise in bending reality to his will and insisting that others follow.” Rachel Maddow considers Donald Trump’s weird compulsion to lie.
Something that readers of Rachel Maddow’s new book are reacting to with surprise is not just that there was a faction within the U.S. that sided with Nazis during World War II, but the influence that American racists and antisemites had on Nazi leaders. In this clip, for example, Rachel talks with Nicolle Wallace about Hitler’s regard for Henry Ford.
U.S. labor unions are enjoying tremendous support right now, and also tremendous success.
Among the results from Iowa earlier this week, these two entrance polls have stuck with us. How do you interpret non-Trump-voting Republican primary/caucus voters? How many are never-Trumpers? How many are basically lying to the pollster and would vote for Trump even if they think he’s unfit? How many does it take to make a damaging hole in Trump’s level of support in the general election?
For an election about saving democracy, there doesn’t seem to be a whole lot of democracy going on.
Heads up!
Rachel is using Threads!
@MaddowMaddow is her personal account there.
The IG side of that account is just a placeholder, which is why it’s set to “private.”
Today on #ThreeQuestions Rachel Maddow joins Andy to discuss her MSNBC show’s switch to a weekly format, the importance of anti-corruption laws, her love of ice-fishing, and more. Listen at the link in bio.