Rachel Maddow: MAGA 'revolutionaries' not unlike America's fascination with 'gangsterism'

The country lusts over its lawless past — particularly organized crime — and for Rachel Maddow, that kind of merciless underworld is ever so familiar with the brutal state of domestic politics.

"Violence is something that we are very good at in this country," she said Monday night on her MSNBC show. "And we all know all the tropes right? You know, making business people pay protection to the mob, and if they don't pay their protection money then the mob guys beat them up and trash their business and maybe even kill them.