'Murder! Arson! Dictatorship! Anarchy!': NBC Historian Michael Beschloss Paints Trump Apocalypse

Was this a Sunday morning political talk show—or the trailer for Mad Max: America? Appearing on MSNBC's The Weekend, leftist NBC historian Michael Beschloss painted a picture of what America would be if Trump won the presidency that was so apocalyptic, Mel Gibson might reject the script as too over the top. Co-host Symone Sanders Townsend kicked off the scare-a-thon, claiming that if Trump wins the election, there will be no "guardrails" preventing him from doing whatever he wants. Odd assertion, given that the system just managed to convict Trump of 34 felonies, and the judge, who was also a Biden donor, has the power to order Trump to prison.

After Sanders Townsend's dire prediction, Beschloss took over, and promptly turned the panic meter up to 11. He described a desolate American landscape in which Trump would be a dictator not just for a day, but perhaps for "the rest of our lifetimes." A wrecking of the rule of law designed to protect us from "murder, and arson." A collapse of foreign investment. (…)

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