MSNBC host Rachel Maddow on Monday blamed former President Donald Trump's landslide victory in the Iowa caucuses on a “radicalized” Republican primary.
By 8:45 p.m. Monday, multiple networks announced Trump as the winner of the caucuses, with 51.03% of the vote. according to On Fox News. Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley remain in the race for second place, with less than 2,300 votes separating them. (Related: 'He lost me': Jonathan Turley rebuts Biden's 'attack on democracy' speech in less than 60 seconds)
“If we are worried about the rise of authoritarianism in this country, if we are worried about the potential rise of fascism in this country, if we are concerned about the potential rise of fascism in this country, if our democracy is If you're worried about slipping into a fascist and potentially fascist form of government, your leaders should say, “That's part of the equation, but the people who want it are not part of the equation.'' It's a bigger part of it, and the American electorate is made up of two major parties,” Maddow said during a panel discussion that included MSNBC hosts Jen Psaki and Joy Reid. Chris Hayes and Lawrence O'Donnell.
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“One of those parties has been flirting with far-right extremism for a very long time,” Maddow continued. “They've brought them into the center of Republican electoral politics in a way that they haven't been at the center of Republican electoral politics before. When you radicalize one major party and that becomes the preference of the people who support your party, its leaders… will be replaceable. Trump sometimes fails, but the so-called “MAGA movement” would be a better way to make it happen. ”
Maine Democratic Secretary of State Shena Bellows on December 28 criticized President Trump's presidential election, citing the 14th Amendment's “insurrection” clause and the January 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol. was disqualified. On December 19, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled in a 4-3 decision that Trump was disqualified from appearing on the ballot in the 2024 election. The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear the case on February 8th.
“There's an authoritarian movement within Republican politics that's not fooled by Trump. It's putting pressure on Trump to become more and more radical because if he says something radical… The more they say it, the more adamant they become, and it's because it comes from so many people on the American right for the Republican Party,'' Maddow argued. “That’s why this is more of a Republican issue than a one-man issue.”
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