On Monday night, MSNBC’s The Last Word host Lawrence O’Donnell took a break from hyperventilating over former President Donald Trump and his scheduled arraignment on Tuesday to bring on Rachel Maddow and discuss her new podcast on the 1930s French fascist movement. The topic was completely random yet fit in perfectly with MSNBC’s narrative that Republicans are anti-democratic fascists.
After mentioning that right wing factions in France stormed parliament and overthrew the government, Maddow couldn’t help but compare it to the riots on January 6.
She then noted that “there was another really interesting reaction in this sort of, just the first few years after that happened, which is that all of the people on the left, and all of the people in the center, who had all sorts of differences with each other, who are always fighting each other like cats and dogs, finally realized, like oh, wait actually, there is an authoritarian fascist threat that wants to destroy all of us.”
“Let's put aside our differences, form a big anti-fascist coalition government, where everything else that we disagree on is less important than us standing against fascism, and us standing for democracy. And they do,” Maddow observed.
Maddow added “that sense of perspective they got from that brush with democratic death is also, I think, something that resonates. I mean it's something to think about in terms of what the effect is of rising authoritarian and pro-fascist movements in democracies around the world, including our own.”
She never explained who the pro-fascists are in the United States. We can assume that she’s referring to the Republican Party since Maddow is a committed leftist and would never accuse her own party of being “fascist.”
Continuing to make false historical analogies to push her radical leftist agenda, Maddow fear mongered: “when there is a shock, particularly a shock from the right, because a shock from the right in these cases wants to undo the democratic system.”
“If everybody else in the democratic system can recognize it as that, it can be a galvanizing, sort of, patriotic thing to rally behind. But save our country, save our democratic way of doing things, and get along for the sake of doing that, even if we wanna go back to fighting with each other,” Maddow cried.
She also didn’t explain how these so-called fascists in the United States should be fought. After she goes into detail on that she should be asked if these scary fascists are in the room with her. She’s clearly seeing and hearing things that don’t exist.
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MSNBC’s The Last Word
6/12/2023
10:32:30 p.m. EasternRACHEL MADDOW: In the immediate aftermath of their successful version of January 6, when the center left government was blocked from taking power, they put in this pro fascist body instead. There was another really interesting reaction in this sort of, just the first few years after that happened, which is that all of the people on the left, and all of the people in the center, who had all sorts of differences with each other, who are always fighting each other like cats and dogs, finally realized, like oh, wait actually, there is an authoritarian fascist threat that wants to destroy all of us. Let's put aside our differences, form a big anti-fascist coalition government, where everything else that we disagree on is less important than us standing against fascism, and us standing for democracy. And they do. And that sense of perspective they got from that brush with democratic death is also, I think, something that resonates. I mean it's something to think about in terms of what the effect is of rising authoritarian and pro-fascist movements in democracies around the world, including our own.
LAWRENCE O’DONNELL: Yeah, and those people who rose up against them, have their counterparts in what was the Republican Party, you know, Charlie Sykes for example who appears on this network, who was a very strong conservative Republican before Trump came in. And he looked at that, and as did many, many, many others, prominent Republicans and say, oh, no, no, I can't be that. I have to oppose that, whatever I do, I have to oppose that.
MADDOW: Yeah, and I mean there’s no—you can't make an analogy between the Nazis and anybody, you can't even really make an analogy, a direct one, between, you know, French fascists and other -- but you can see, when there is a shock, particularly a shock from the right, because a shock from the right in these cases wants to undo the democratic system. If everybody else in the democratic system can recognize it as that, it can be a galvanizing, sort of, patriotic thing to rally behind. But save our country, save our democratic way of doing things, and get along for the sake of doing that, even if we wanna go back to fighting with each other.
