Rachel Maddow: Trump Has Decided to Be ‘Dictator from Day One’

EXCERPT:

MADDOW: "I mean, the difference between when he was talking about that then and what he’s doing now is that whether or not he remembers what he once knew about how America works, he’s decided that he’s throwing it all out. You know, dictator from day one and, you know, going to going to terminate parts of the Constitution, and he’s decided that it doesn’t matter what Congress does, and it doesn’t matter what the courts do, that he’s just the strongman, he’s going to be, you know, in for another term in 2028. I mean, he’s decided to throw out all the rules. The thing that that has done, as far as I’m concerned, is make him very boring, because it’s -- like, it’s all on the table. We know exactly what he’s doing. We know exactly what his intentions are. He’s blonde Berlusconi. This is just — I mean, he’s just trying to do the same thing all the other strongmen and would-be dictators do all over the country. I think the really interesting question is what the country lets him get away with. And we’re seeing a really interesting test of that right now all over the country, especially this week."