Um the thing about authoritarianism, Alacia, is it cannot exist in that petri dish um when people have agency, >> right. So, and it cannot exist and people don't have agency when they're isolated. So, all of the things that are bull works against what are some really sizable steps toward authoritarianism that Trump has made that we've all covered here, um were delivered a decisive blow.It's it's this engagement that you and Jacob both covered yesterday um out um in places where people were voting and they t ...

The New York Times editorial board is out with an expansive interactive piece this morning asking this question. Are we losing our democracy. In it, the editorial board lays out 12 benchmarks of what it calls democratic erosion from the stifling of disscent to the persecution of political opponents.The editorial board argues that the United States has regressed on all 12. The piece concludes this way. The United States is not an autocracy today.It still has a mostly free press and independent judiciary and ...

Okay, joining us now, Democratic Senator Alyssa Slotkin of Michigan. She's a member of the Armed Services Committee and um with one of the things that you wanted to talk about today is uh the No Troops in our streets act and that comes upon u more news on that front. Tell us about it.Yeah, I mean I look yesterday I just felt the need to lay out um sort of popping a flare on the authoritarianism that we are seeing and the playbook that is being run by the president whether he knows it or not. Um, and one of ...

How do you view and make sense of of all of this on that spectrum. >> Well, it's been a very much like a kind of a slow authoritarian creep by Trump. You know, they have been fairly selective.Uh they have been moving in a slow but deliberate manner. Uh it's sort of like the vampires in the movie Sinners where you know mild spoilers for that movie you know for the first half of the film you know life is continuing as it as normal even though the vampires are out there they're hurting people and then suddenly ...

Karl Popper, Friedrich Hayek and Joseph Schumpeter laid the intellectual groundwork for free-market policies. Our primer explains how they argued for the diffusion of power, competition and individual freedom as safeguards against authoritarianism https://t.co/7K0e9Kl1Cm ...

“Donald Trump is copying Xi Jinping’s methods without achieving the Chinese leader’s broader aims,” argues the analyst. “What America is getting is authoritarianism without the good stuff” https://t.co/RFoXcbYDCr ...

Joining us now, staff writer at The Atlantic, David Graham, former press secretary to speakers John Boehner and Paul Ryan, and current MSNBC political analysts Brendan Buck. Former North Dakota senator Heidi Higham and host and host of the Fast Politics podcast and MSNBC political analyst Molly Jong Fast. Brennan, I want to begin with you. What do you think of um what Donald Trump posted over the weekend? the way he talked about those protesters, the way Chip Roy is talking about them, the way Speaker Johns ...

One of the biggest days of protest against President Trump and his policies. It took place on Saturday in cities around the US. Coast to coast, people came out in droves for the No Kings rallies.In what Trump's critics view as a president acting more like a monarch than an elected official. According to organizers, nearly 7 million Americans participated in roughly 2700 marches. The largely peaceful protests come amid accusations that Trump is pushing this country toward authoritarianism or in some proteste ...

And joining us now, journalist and author Pao Ramos. She is contributor for MSNBC and Noticia Telmundo. Also joining us is independent reporter and former Washington Post columnist my former colleague Philip Bump.Thanks so much for joining us this morning guys. It appears that the apocalypse that Republicans were predicting >> happen did not happen. Um but Paula, what what did you see yesterday on the streets.>> So I was coming back from the Rio Grand Valley. So I spent um the last week in in the valley and ...

Brian Bloomberg, Opinion, senior executive editor and an MSNBC political analyst, and Jason Stanley, professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto and the author of Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future. Gentlemen, welcome back to the weekend. Tim, the president's calling himself the chief law enforcement officer of the United States. The president is not the chief law enforcement officer of the United States.That is the attorney general. But this is the second time at ...