Maddow can sometimes come across as overly emphatic, even alarmist, but these two YouTube items nail it. Giving cause to rethrink what might be in the U.S. best interest, vs. what is happening now in the way Trump wants things.

 The links are YouTube, so watch both please. That said, the first:

'Not about crime': Maddow CRACKS OPEN Trump's real motives in deploying the National Guard to D.C.

 From the comments:

@Julianna9845

5 days ago (edited)

He's testing his authoritarian rule and seeing how far he can take things.

It is a fine single sentence summary of what Maddow is analyzing, and it is Trump escalation of his fascistic agenda. He needs a balcony.

Second, lead image "IT'S NOT COMING. IT'S HERE" which is a very sobering message and the brief Maddow analysis is, if anything, understatement, with these two comments among others:

@mendivil71

13 days ago

I am a Navy veteran and what we learned on the first few days of boot camp was Uniform Code of Military Justice it requires obedience to lawful orders, and not to those that are illegal or unethical, according to military law. Those ICE agents know what their doing is wrong and when this madness stops and we become a just nation again I hope they are held accountable for their actions.

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@michaelrafferty660

13 days ago

Everything Kamala Harris warned us about and more has come true.

Judging which theme is more disturbing as action in total disdain of rule of law, and a threat to orderly society as we have known it is a very close call. So watch both short items and  fondle that question in your mind. It is not an easy call. Both should scare the shit out of anybody who knows anything of fascist growth in Europe between the World Wars. We have it. It is here, and must be countered by sanity.

That Congress will not reassert it's preeminent Constitutional policy position is ultra sick, and those short term Republican legislators shall regret their negligence in protecting the Nation against a bombastic fascist horror show. With real people suffering a world of hurt so Trump can flex his power, they ratify. Gutless servitude of Republicans who were elected to have a spine (but have none) is a freak show by those freakish thralls. Sick. And Sicker.