good morning. happy new year. welcome to a special new year s day edition of morning joe. we re on tape this morning with some of our top, recent conversations. we begin with a discussion about donald trump s increasing use of authoritarian language in his speeches and social media posts. in recent months, trump has repeated fascist rhetoric, including saying immigrants are, quote, poisoning the blood of our country, and referring to his political enemies as vermin. we pledge to you that we will root out the communists, marxists, fascists, and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country. the threat from outside forces is sinister, dangerous, and grave, more than the threat from within. donald trump echoing the words of 20th century authoritarians at a rally earlier this month. joining us now, national affairs analyst john heilemann. special correspondent at vanity fair and host of the fast politics podcast, molly jong-fast. and co
to support a liberal rule. and a lot of the stuff going on now like, look how many people were involved in january 6th are running for office. that s because right. you need extremists in government and in the party. and then you have these mini-trumps who have learned the lessons of trump and want to surpass him like desantis. so, all of these things are legible, are understandable through the, you know, making an authoritarian culture for the future. and based on all should we even view the republican party as the republican party, you know, of, you know, just the last ten years? i mean, has it changed so much that it really it should be called something else? the trump i ve been calling it the trump-owned party, the t.o.p. but it s not really the republican party you and i grew up with. no. it was already on its way to becoming an extremist party, but and losing some of the
so why have we changed from that, anger about his church with wright and acceptance of an american to this they re all becoming donald trumps, mini trumps. my explanation for it is fear. my explanation is it s not based on a study of genealogical history or it s fear. and among a certain part of this population, this country, which you showed there on the charts, they think that president obama is on a mission to rob the american people of their freedom. that s why he killed bin laden. yes. that s why he s almost destroyed now al qaeda, which he said he would do. i m just saying that s their world view, and the fear expresses itself in the idea that this man must be someone else. he must be another. he must be a hidden person. he must have an agenda that s hidden for some reason.
all the trouble. why did we change from that to this they re all becoming donald trumps, mini trumps. my ex lplanation for it is fear. it s not based on a study of genealogical history. it s fear. and among a certain part of this population, this country, which you showed there on the charts, they think that president obama is on a mission to rob the american people of their freedom. that s why he killed bin laden. yes. that s why he s almost destroyed now al qaeda, which you said he would do. i m just saying that s their world view, and the fear expresses itself in the idea that this man must be someone else. he must be another. he must be a hidden person. he must have an agenda that s hidden for some reason. yo, i want to point out some things republicans are watching. i just want to point out a couple things. your stock market, 401(k) has doubled. not because of obama, but he
that you are saying is par for the course. a bunch of things are going on here. to olivia s point, look, actually firing your chief of staff after humiliating legislative defeats i have ever seen, which was last night s senate vote. that s not unwarranted. you si that trump has a it group of mini-trumps. in comes scaramucci who just seems to take that past any possible imaging. i mean, he the reason that i think that he probably has a bright future in trump land, at least for the foreseeable future is because he has figured out how to channel donald trump. he flatters him. he slavishly loyal to him.