Four of the five liberal late night comedy shows focused a lot of energy on their Thursday episodes on the situation in Minneapolis. According to them, the administration is lying about the female driver being a threat to the ICE agent who shot her, people who agree with the administration are fascists, and Trump plans to use the situation to further his goal of governing without elections.
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Over on ABC, Jimmy Kimmel asked MS NOW’s Rachel Maddow, “I'm sure you've been following that [Minneapolis] closely. And I know, besides doing the show, you are a student of American history. You know a lot about what's going on. Have we seen anything like this before? Anything that you can think of?”
Maddow could not, “There are parallels to all sorts of different slices of what we are seeing right now, but we've never had a president who thinks he should rule without being subject to elections.”
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