Rachel Maddow Delivers Discombobulated ‘Dictatorship’ Diatribe For Half Her Weekly Show

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow offered a half-hour diatribe accusing President Donald Trump of turning the U.S. into an “authoritarian country,” rambling about immigration enforcement and Texas redistricting.

Democrats in the Texas state legislature fled to Illinois and New York to thwart a special session of the body considering a redistricting plan that could net Republicans up to five seats in the House of Representatives. Maddow spent nearly half her show whining to viewers, telling them that a “dictatorship” had been established.

“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,” Maddow said after delving into the redistricting. “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,” Maddow continued.

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Maddow then turned her attention to operations by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents across the country.