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 Huffington Post - MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow says Americans no longer have to fear potential authoritarianism in their own country, because “we are there” already — and cited President Donald Trump’s widespread immigration raids, detainments without probable cause and use of military force.

“We have crossed a line,” she said on “The Rachel Maddow Show” Monday. “We are in a place we did not want to be, but we are there. The thing we were all warning about for the last few years is not coming, it is here. We are in it. This is what [it’s] like, it turns out.”

Maddow argued that large swaths of the country might easily overlook this downward slide, as movies are still being produced, sports continue to be played and families are still discussing the same old issues they always have around their kitchen table each night.

“But also, at the same time, life in the United States is profoundly changing,” Maddow added Monday. “It’s profoundly different than it was even six months ago, because we do now live in a country that has an authoritarian leader in charge.”

She then put it even more bluntly: “We have a consolidating dictatorship in our country.”