MSNBC’s Ali Velshi on Sunday delivered what he described as a “essential” actuality verify concerning the ongoing “collapse of democracy” in America beneath President Donald Trump.
The idea is a “unusual, nearly surreal factor” as a result of it may be “summary and arduous to acknowledge within the second” till it begins to have an effect on folks straight, Velshi defined.
Velshi pointed to a sequence of current examples, together with Trump’s deployment of Nationwide Guard models to cities that by no means requested them, federal judges’ rulings handled as non-compulsory, political opponents out of the blue going through prison probes, and media shops softening protection.
“Every new abuse is justified as non permanent, needed, even an emergency,” Velshi famous. “Till at some point, it’s not non permanent in any respect. Till at some point, the justification stops altogether as a result of one’s energy is absolute and not feels the necessity to clarify itself.”
Velshi argued that whereas every assault on democratic norms could seem an outlier, mixed, the system is now “unrecognizable.”
“That’s the place we’re proper now. It’s not the place we’re headed. It’s the place we’re,” he stated.
Watch Velshi’s full monologue right here:
