Rachel Maddow had anticipated that President Joe Biden’s farewell address may have been more somber, perhaps a “warning” of what’s to come in the years ahead.
But speaking on MSNBC with colleagues Chris Hayes, Joy Reid, Jen Psaki and Alex Wagner Wednesday evening to analyze the 20-minutes speech just as it wrapped, Maddow admitted that she “did not expect it to be this stark.”
Reacting to the president warning of a looming oligarchy and a “dangerous concentration of power” among America’s ultra-wealthy, the news host said while reading direct quotes from his address that Biden’s message “put a chill down my spine.”