MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow says Individuals not must concern potential authoritarianism in their very own nation, as a result of “we are there” already — and cited President Donald Trump’s widespread immigration raids, detainments with out possible trigger and use of army pressure.
“We have crossed a line,” she stated on “The Rachel Maddow Show” Monday. “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’s] like, it turns out.”
Maddow argued that giant swaths of the nation would possibly simply overlook this downward slide, as motion pictures are nonetheless being produced, sports activities proceed to be performed and households are nonetheless discussing the identical previous points they all the time have round their kitchen desk every evening.
“But also, at the same time, life in the United States is profoundly changing,” Maddow added Monday. “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.”
She then put it much more bluntly: “We have a consolidating dictatorship in our country.”
Whereas the MSNBC host went on to acknowledge that this would possibly sound “melodramatic,” Maddow famous the U.S. now appears to have its personal “secret police,” which is commonplace throughout dictatorships, within the Immigration and Customs Enforcement company underneath Trump.
“A massive, anonymous, unbadged — literally masked — totally unaccountable internal police force that apparently has infinite funding but no identifiable leadership,” stated Maddow. “And they act in ways designed to instill maximum fear and use maximum force.”
Maddow continued: “I mean, when you imagine an authoritarian country, 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’s allowed in to see what’s going on.”
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Specialists have already warned that one such jail, Florida’s immigrant detention camp that Republicans have dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” is “a human rights disaster waiting to happen.” Democratic lawmakers initially blocked from visiting had been lastly granted entry final month and confirmed its horrid situations.
The president has justified nationwide crackdowns on undocumented employees, in addition to the detainment, arrest and deportation of faculty college students and professors throughout the U.S., as mandatory safety in opposition to supposedly violent and anti-American immigrants.
Maddow argued it gained’t cease there, nonetheless, and that the U.S. army in a number of states has already “extended the legal boundaries of nearby military bases” by a whole bunch of miles “so they can give active duty U.S. troops the power to arrest and search people on U.S soil.”
“We are not heading toward something like this,” Maddow stated Monday. “We are there. It is here. It is the environment in which we are now living. And so, given that you now live in a country with an authoritarian leader, the question is: What can you do for your country?”
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