“We have now crossed a line,” she mentioned on The Rachel Maddow Present, Monday. “We’re in a spot we didn’t wish to be, however we’re there. The factor we had been all warning about for the previous couple of years is just not coming, it’s right here. We’re in it. That is what [it’s] like, it seems.”
Maddow argued that enormous swaths of the nation would possibly simply overlook this downward slide, as films are nonetheless being produced, sports activities proceed to be performed, and households are nonetheless discussing the identical outdated points they all the time have round their kitchen desk every night time.
“But additionally, on the similar time, life in the USA is profoundly altering,” Maddow added Monday. “It’s profoundly totally different than it was even six months in the past, as a result of we do now reside in a rustic that has an authoritarian chief in cost.”