Maddow: “Doomsayers” Were Right About How Bad Trump Would Be, “All The Worst Predictions About What He’d Be Like Are True”
THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT: Emmy-winner Rachel Maddow points out that President Trump is bypassing Congress and ignoring court orders in an attempt to neutralize those branches of government and operate without the checks and balances that are outlined in the Constitution.
RACHEL 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 anybody 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’re experiencing is not just somebody who’s 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’re disempowering Congress, ignoring Congress. When they’re defunding agencies or closing agencies, that’s Congress’s job. That’s not the president’s job. When they’re defying court orders, that’s them saying that the courts don’t have authority over the president. That’s consolidating all power in one man. That’s authoritarianism. And that’s what you do when you don’t ever want to have an election, because you want to stay in power for life. And that is what they are trying. All the worst predictions about what he’d be like are true. But the best hopes for how much the American people would stand up against it have not even matched a fraction of how much people are standing up and how much people are saying no. There has never in the history of this country been an American president who’s been this unpopular at 100 days in. The American public are just saying no. They’re just saying no. No, no, no.
