Rachel Maddow

That's the whole reason we need AI. Yay! Jesus. Totally. Usher it in. The courts having too much to bear in the criminal justice system, in particular, being asked to do more than its share is important. But I also feel like, you know, again, I go back to the public, not the punditocracy and not the media, not the political class at all, but just the public. The last New

should the president have to obey an order from the Supreme Court was like 76 to 6. It's like 80-20, yeah. No, it's like 90-10.

should the president have to obey an order from the Supreme Court was like 76 to 6. It's like 80-20, yeah. No, it's like 90-10.

Exactly.

Exactly.

I don't know. That is really important because they've rushed. Like you said at the beginning, like Orban and Putin didn't move this fast. Yeah. I think the Trump movement, you know, the Stephen Millers and Russell Vogt and Heritage Foundations and J.D. Vance's of the world, they studied the authoritarian playbook and they knew what they had to do fast.

I don't know. That is really important because they've rushed. Like you said at the beginning, like Orban and Putin didn't move this fast. Yeah. I think the Trump movement, you know, the Stephen Millers and Russell Vogt and Heritage Foundations and J.D. Vance's of the world, they studied the authoritarian playbook and they knew what they had to do fast.

And they have decided that, like, in the first six months in particular, in the first 180 days, they need to go as far as humanly possible, get as far as possible. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. So Trump is not only underwater in terms of his overall approval, he's more underwater in his overall approval than any other president at this time in his 100 days.

And they have decided that, like, in the first six months in particular, in the first 180 days, they need to go as far as humanly possible, get as far as possible. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. So Trump is not only underwater in terms of his overall approval, he's more underwater in his overall approval than any other president at this time in his 100 days.

He's underwater on every single issue. He's even underwater on immigration, which is supposed to be his political capital. He's deeply, deeply, deeply underwater on everything related to the economy. And he's acting so illegally offensively.

He's underwater on every single issue. He's even underwater on immigration, which is supposed to be his political capital. He's deeply, deeply, deeply underwater on everything related to the economy. And he's acting so illegally offensively.

over such a broad swath of territory that the courts are stopping almost everything he's trying to do domestically, which puts him in the position, if he wants to continue to try to push, of having to defy court orders, which will break his relationship with the American public almost entirely, almost entirely, down to low to mid single digits in terms of who supports him in doing that. Yeah.

over such a broad swath of territory that the courts are stopping almost everything he's trying to do domestically, which puts him in the position, if he wants to continue to try to push, of having to defy court orders, which will break his relationship with the American public almost entirely, almost entirely, down to low to mid single digits in terms of who supports him in doing that. Yeah.

So, OK, like that's important in terms of thinking about how much political ground he has to maneuver. I mean, he started already. You know, they arrested a judge. They arrested a mayor. They threatened to arrest the governor of Wisconsin, Tony Evers, which nobody noticed, but that happened.

So, OK, like that's important in terms of thinking about how much political ground he has to maneuver. I mean, he started already. You know, they arrested a judge. They arrested a mayor. They threatened to arrest the governor of Wisconsin, Tony Evers, which nobody noticed, but that happened.

They arrested a member of Congress, LaMonica McIver, have now started a criminal investigation into a candidate, Andrew Cuomo, against their wholly owned New York City mayor, Eric Adams. And so they've started the, you know, arresting the opposition stuff and arresting people in other types of civic life.

They arrested a member of Congress, LaMonica McIver, have now started a criminal investigation into a candidate, Andrew Cuomo, against their wholly owned New York City mayor, Eric Adams. And so they've started the, you know, arresting the opposition stuff and arresting people in other types of civic life.

That is also something that they shouldn't, I think, on their political timeline, shouldn't be doing until much later on. Having to do that, having to start arresting their opponents.

That is also something that they shouldn't, I think, on their political timeline, shouldn't be doing until much later on. Having to do that, having to start arresting their opponents.

Clearing the deck so that Jeanine Pirro can start indicting sitting members of Congress, which I'm expecting soon, that is something that is going to kind of, I think, push people to a very clear understanding of the radicalness of what's going on earlier than they probably would want.