Trump teasing authoritarianism admits his own defeat: MSNBC host
Raw StoryThe recent New York Times report details Donald Trump is promoting authoritarianism and anticipating throwing out career staff in the government to replace them with his own ideologues. Speaking about it on Monday, MSNBC host Joy Ann Reid and historian Michael Beschloss compared the ideology to Hungary's Viktor Orban, which the far-right has promoted over the years. In terms of them admitting that the outcomes they want and that his fans want, the reason they love Trump, is he's promising to bypass democracy to implement the things they want that a vast majority of Americans don't want," remarked Reid. "But what the Trump people are doing is they're taking advantage of a weakness in our system that goes all the way back to 1787, which says if you manipulate it, if you appoint certain people to the Supreme Court, which is owned one-third by Donald Trump, and people who like him, Congress may be dominated by Republicans 16 months from now.
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