Rachel Maddow complains about rise of authoritarianism after Trump win, announces MSNBC won't broadcast victory speech

Rachel Maddow appeared on a panel for MSNBC covering the Iowa Caucuses and claimed that "MAGA" is an "authoritarian movement” and an example of “extremism" while she cheered on MSNBC for not running Trump's victory speech. Trump thanked his opponents and called for unity amid the political divide in America.

"Trumpism is sometimes what we call it. MAGA movement is probably a better way to do it. But there is an authoritarian movement inside Republican politics that isn't being bamboozled by Trump. They are pushing Trump to get more and more extreme," Maddow stated on Monday night.  

After the outlet had called the projected winner to be former President Donald Trump, Maddow said that the Republican party has been "flirting with extremism on the ultra-right for a very long time." 

She stated that Americans should be worried about the rise of "fascism" as well as "authoritarianism" in the country coming from people who she said have more recently become engaged with politics because of Trump's involvement in the political sphere. She claimed more and more people have been "wanting that" in the country. 

"I know because of I've been studying this. But once you have radicalized one major party so that those are the preferences of the people that adhere to your party, the leader is interchangeable," Maddow said. "The more extreme things he says, the more they adhere to him." 

At the same time, Maddow cheered on MSNBC for not airing Trump's speech, which could be considered censorsious in denying their viewers the chance to hear what the winner of the Iowa caucus had to say.

Maddow said that the outlet was not going to give Trump air time because they did not want to give an "unfiltered live platform to former President Trump." She said there would be a cost to the news organization for broadcasting, what Maddow called, "untrue things."

Trump has said that corporate media, President Joe Biden, and others on the left have weaponized government against him by undertaking criminal cases against him. His supporters agree that the cases are politically motivated.

After Georgia DA Fani Willis’ office indicted Trump in August, along with 18 other co-defendants, on RICO charges, Maddow shared what appeared to be a gleeful moment with Hillary Clinton on air at the outlet.  

She said, while joking about the outcome, that she felt a “profound sadness that we have a former president who has been indicted for so many charges that went right to the heart of whether or not our democracy would survive." 

The indictment of Trump in Georgia has now become embroiled with allegations of corruption against Fani Willis for coordinating with the J6 committee and providing monetary favors for her lover.