Rachel Maddow Offers Bleak Reason For Donald Trump's Continued Fascist Talk

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow said former President Donald Trump is continuing to repeat fascistic rhetoric because “those things work for him.”

On Monday, Maddow noted the well-worn authoritarian strategy of turning people against each other so voters end up feeling that only a “strongman” can fix the country.

This weekend, Trump told a New Hampshire rally that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country.” His remarks have been condemned: A spokesperson for President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign said Trump “parroted Hitler.”

“There’s a reason [Adolf] Hitler and [Benito] Mussolini said this stuff, too. It worked then, it works now,” Maddow said. “It has worked abroad all over the world and yes, it has worked here, too. More than we like to remember.”

“This stuff is tactically efficient” and has a “terrible history of working really well,” she warned.

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In a separate segment, Maddow’s MSNBC colleague, Jen Psaki, noted how Trump is “clearly slipping in this vile, violent language more and more.”

“A dictatorial speech there, an authoritarian Truth Social post here. He’s kind of trying to normalize his extreme, fascist rhetoric to condition his supporters to be OK with it,” lamented the former Biden White House press secretary.

It “seems to be working,” Psaki added. “There is a market for the tyranny he’s selling.”

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