Maddow: Trump ‘Doesn’t Think That There Should Be Elections’

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MADDOW: “I mean, I feel like, for as heartened as I am about the American people literally protesting every single day against what Trump and the Republicans are doing, and so much more resistance than anyone told us to expect, I think it’s also true that the people who warned us about how bad this was going to be, the people who were really hysterical, like, really — the doomsayers, they were all right about how bad this is. And what we are experiencing is not just somebody who is fighting against the Democratic Party. He’s fighting against the democratic process. He doesn’t think there should be elections. And they are consolidating power, they are disempowering Congress, ignoring Congress. When they're defunding agencies or closing agencies, that’s Congress’ job, that’s not the president’s job. When they are defying court orders, that’s them saying that the courts don’t have authority over the president. That’s consolidating all the power in one man. That’s authoritarianism and that’s what you do when you don’t want to have an election because you want to stay in power for life. That is what they are trying. All the worst predictions about what he would be like are true, but the best hopes for how much the American people would stand up to it have not even matched a fraction of how much people are standing up and how much people are saying no.”