Rachel Maddow warns US witnessing an attempted ‘authoritarian’ takeover

Lesbian political commentator Rachel Maddow was not holding back when asked for her take on Donald Trump’s first few months back in office.

Having hosted some 70 weeknight broadcasts of her own show during the first 100 days of Trump’s second term, Maddow appeared on Late Night with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday (6 May).

“We are in the midst of an attempted authoritarian overthrow of the US government,” she proclaimed, adding it was “not by an insurgent movement”, but, as she discusses in her book Prequel, “the party in power”.

Since returning to office, Trump has faced criticism for signing a raft of executive orders specifically targeting the trans community, including making it the official policy of the US that there are “only two sexes”, restricting gender-affirming healthcare for transgender youngsters under the age 19, eliminating

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