RIGHT SPEAK: Rachel Maddow and the Case of the Imaginary Dictatorship: Welcome to the Leftist Twilight Zone

Rachel Maddow and the Case of the Imaginary Dictatorship:

Welcome to the leftist Twilight Zone.

Rachel Maddow is at it again — eyes to the heavens, voice quivering, as if she’s about to narrate the final act of a Ken Burns documentary entitled “America: The Dark Years.”

This week’s cliffhanger? “We have a consolidating dictatorship in our country.”

In Maddow’s latest monologue, she painted Trump’s America as a police-state nightmare — “secret police” supposedly prowling for immigrants, civil life grinding to a halt, the entire nation undergoing a “profound” transformation in just six months. If you closed your eyes, you’d think she was describing Venezuela with better lighting.

Now, I understand Rachel’s job is to frighten the MSNBC faithful into thinking every Trump policy is a page from the Authoritarian for Dummies handbook. But here’s the thing: none of what’s happening right now is a surprise. Not one iota. In fact, it’s exactly what the voters — you know, the people in that pesky little thing called a constitutional republic — elected him to do.

Tariffs? Promised.

Deportations? Promised.

Tax relief? Promised.

Law enforcement actually enforcing laws? Promised.

Booting gender ideology out of schools? Promised.

Supporting the military, telling Iran to sit down and shut up, standing by our allies, creating a fair playing field for American products, rooting out corruption — all promised.

That’s not authoritarianism. That’s called “keeping your campaign promises.” It’s just that in Washington, where most promises evaporate faster than a TikTok trend, actually doing what you said you’d do is treated like sorcery.

But Maddow’s rant was only the appetizer. The real main course of absurdity was served in the comment section.

One person lamented, “It’s not just the leader. GOP Reps, senators, and Supreme Court judges have made this all possible. They are enthusiastically complicit in this.”

To which I replied, “Because we the people put them all there.” That’s how elections work. Shocking, I know.

Another commenter asked, “Where are our elected officials!? Why aren’t they fighting for us?!”

Well, they were replaced in the last election. The people in majorities gave us the officials we have now. That’s the beauty — and the occasional comedy — of a representative republic. If you don’t like them, vote differently next time. This is Civics 101, folks.