Hillary on Rachel tonight.

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5. HRC again warned us of right-wing authoritarianism.

She warned that our democracy is being subverted and could fall to an authoritarian government. She's talking about an existential threat to government of, by and for the people.

Authoritarianism does not mean current citizen-controlled things like whether we're going to have corporal punishment in schools. It means either dictator-type government or fascism, probably continuing to pretend to be a democracy but not, like Iran and Russia, both failed democracies. Their leaders decide who will be punished and how.

Hillary: "...we have an election, and it's an election that could not be more critical to ending any continuing threat from authoritarian tendencies."

She chose to just focus on Trump on Maddow and the need to vote for a Democratic-controlled congress to act as a check on him. But the Republicans currently installed or kept in congress to further their donors' goals are every bit as big a threat, as is authoritarian control of the Supreme Court.

We are most Americans and we can stop this. But we must have control of congress.