See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog.
Joining host Chris on Wednesday’s pre-Thanksgiving edition of MSNBC’s All In, MSNBC political analyst and former Democratic Vermont Governor Howard Dean tried to trash the Republican Party as nothing but “an authoritarian party” “for a very long time” due to their policy positions on voter I.D. and abortion to name a few.
Dean’s diatribe surprisingly shocked Hayes and seemed to come across to the liberal host as going too far with him repeatedly trying to rebut Dean and merely point out the GOP just has different opinions than liberals on many issues (as opposed to wanting to act as authoritarian fascists).