Trump just handed Dems the 'recruiting opportunity of a generation': MSNBC analyst

Journalist Anand Giridharadas told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Friday that progressives are fortunate that President Donald Trump's attempted authoritarian takeover of the American government is producing unpopular chaos.

While discussing the start of Trump's second term, Giridharadas described Trump's governance as "the recruiting opportunity of a generation" for progressives.

"We are not getting the kind of concerted, intelligent, focused authoritarianism that we've seen at some moments in history, in places around the world," he said. "This is... the stupid coup. This is a highly incompetent, awkward, bumbling, chaotic coup."

He then acknowledged that people were undergoing real pain at the moment, but he said that this makes a backlash against Trump more likely.

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"It doesn't mean it's great, but it is actually an opportunity to organize people because people don't like their stock portfolios diving," he said. "People don't like our allies being slapped in the face. People don't like $2,000 per household tariff tax on Americans. So there's an organizing opportunity."

He then pointed to the tour that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is undertaking at the moment to listen to Americans' economic struggles and to convince them that right-wing economic policies are to blame for their problems.

"What he's doing in these rallies that I think a lot of people across the pro-democracy movement could be doing is helping people connect," he said. "That kind of personal, lived experience of pain, stress, angst, connecting it to what is happening in Washington."

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