'Not a normal candidate': Morning Joe says Trump 'running to end American democracy'

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough warned that Donald Trump was explicitly running for president on the campaign promise to end American democracy.

The "Morning Joe" host went through a checklist of all the ways Trump meets the definition of a fascist, and he said the former president had learned what protected democracy from his worst impulses during his first term and intended to rip out those guardrails if he returns to the White House.

"People in the media have a responsibility to really tune out the voices of the haters, of the people that are constantly double-, triple-checking and shilling for him, suggesting somehow they're being biased, bending over backwards, treating him like a normal candidate," Scarborough said. "He is not a normal candidate. He is running to end American democracy as we know it. He is an authoritarian who a court in Colorado two days ago ruled that he led an insurrection against the United States government. He is charged with leading schemes to help overthrow the United States government, so if they want to frame it that way, that's fine. If you want to be fair, if you want to be fair, you will frame this as Joe Biden being the candidate that supports American democracy and Donald Trump, a candidate who supports a new form of government here that's authoritarian. It's really that simple."

"By the way, when people go, 'Oh, you can't compare him to past Nazi leaders, this past Nazi leader or that past fascist leader, because he hasn't done' -- well, what hasn't he done?" Scarborough continued. "He hasn't done the things that the American judicial system did not allow him to do last time, but may very well allow him to do this time, or a judicial system that will be ignored by Donald Trump and ran over by Donald Trump to create the greatest constitutional crisis of our lifetimes. Just because he hasn't done it yet doesn't mean he won't do it when he gets a chance to do it. If he is voted into office, then a lot of these people that are talking about literal or figurative or whatever the hell they're saying, are going to look like idiots."

"He will do, he will get away with, he will imprison, he will execute whoever he is allowed to imprison, execute, drive from the country," Scarborough concluded. "Just look at his past. It's not really hard to read. Again, the only thing that stood between him and the destruction of American democracy was the federal judiciary."

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