MSNBC host Rachel Maddow warned People on Monday to not develop into too distracted by the crass drama of Donald Trump’s incoming regime.
“There is a way to look upon the oligarch-ization of the American government as drama, as a kind of theater of greed, and maybe there’ll be some good stories there,” Maddow mentioned, later including, “But for most of us, what’s more important than what they do for themselves is what it does to everyone else.”
Maddow highlighted Elon Musk, co-chair of a deliberate advisory fee on slashing the federal finances. His automotive firm, Tesla, has been beneath federal investigation as a result of a excessive variety of crashes from vehicles utilizing its automated driving system. Nonetheless, now Trump’s transition workforce has really useful scrapping the crash-reporting requirement, which is essential to monitoring the protection of these driving methods.
“I mean, they can’t just say, well, you know, ‘This guy paid for the presidential election,’” Maddow says. “You can’t really just say that, ‘Hey, you kids getting off school buses, watch yourself. Unless and until you can start paying for your own president, you’re fair game on the side of the road.’”
There may be additionally funding banker Howard Lutnick, Trump’s nominee to be commerce secretary. Lutnick can also be co-chair of the Trump transition workforce and a giant cryptocurrency backer. His brokerage agency, Cantor Fitzgerald, manages the property of shady crypto outfit Tether, in line with The Wall Avenue Journal.
And as Maddow defined, Tether has “[a]lleged links to the terrorist group Hamas, Russian arms dealers, the North Korean nuclear weapons program, Mexican drug cartels, and, for good measure, Chinese manufacturers of chemicals used to make fentanyl. So maybe car crashes aren’t your thing. Are any of those things any of your concerns?”
She factors to the ill-advised nominations of Donald Trump Jr.’s (possibly former) fiancee Kimberly Guilfoyle and son-in-law’s felon father, Charles Kushner, to ambassadorships.
“It can sound like interesting drama to watch, right? Like ‘Succession’ style,” Maddow mentioned. “Really rich people fighting and maneuvering among themselves to see who comes out on top, to see who gets to control what piece of the pie.”
Maddow then interviewed Timothy Snyder, a Yale College professor who has written books concerning the rise of oligarchies all over the world.
Snyder says the Democratic Social gathering must look ahead and resist Trump’s oligarchy by providing up options on how the federal government can work for the American folks. There must be coordinated messaging by Democratic lawmakers “whose job it is to talk to the press every day. Not just about what’s wrong, but actually about, hey, what the government could do,” Snyder mentioned.
“It’s that lack of imagination, when things get terrible, we’re going to think, okay, terrible, let’s have less terrible, but we should be thinking about, ‘Hey, we actually have great people in this country, and we could have had a much better version of all of this, and we can get to that.’”
