WATCH: MSNBC Host Rachel Maddow Has MELTDOWN After Trump's Huge Iowa Win

On Monday evening, Iowans packed into crowded gyms, private homes, and various other venues to participate in the highly anticipated Iowa Caucus, the first 2024 presidential contest of the year. Going into the race, 45th President Donald Trump was the expected favorite, while former Gov. Nikki Haley (R-SC), Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), businessman Vivek Ramaswamy (R-OH), and former Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R-AR) all vying for the vote of Iowans. Ultimately, Trump dominated the competition and defeated his challengers.

Blistering cold temperatures defined the night, with temperatures reaching negative 9 degrees Fahrenheit while the wind chill dropped to 35 degrees below zero. The race was called incredibly early, with less than a percent of the vote in, and resulted in President Trump being called the winner at approximately 7:33 p.m. CST.

While Trump's victory was celebrated by millions of Americans across the country, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow had a meltdown in response to the news. "I don't mean to be, again, too dark as you said on this, but if we are worried about the rise of authoritarianism in this country, we are worried about the potential rise of fascism in this country. If we're worried about our democracy falling to an authoritarian and potentially fascist form of government. The leader who is trying to do that is part of that equation, but people wanting that is a much bigger part of that equation."

"The American electorate is made up of two major parties. One of those parties has been flirting with extremism on the ultra-right for a very long time. They have brought them in in a way that they haven't been central to Republican electoral politics ever before, and I know because I have studied this," Maddow claims. "But once you have radicalized one major party so that those are the preferences of the people who adhere to your party, the leader's interchangeable. And yes, Trumpism is sometimes what we call it. MAGA movement is probably a better way to do it. But there is an authoritarian movement inside of Republican politics that isn't being bamboozled by Trump. They are pushing Trump to get more and more extreme because the more extreme things he says, the more they adhere to him. And that is coming from a very large portion of the American right that adheres to the Republican party, and that is why this is a Republican party problem more than it is the problem of one man."

While Maddow argued that Trump and the America First movement are steeped in fascism, Trump was celebrating his victory. Trump said that he felt "great" about such an early victory call, as reported by Fox News. "I am greatly honored by such an early call." Within the two hours after the caucuses closed, Trump was dominating the competition with 52.8 percent of the vote compared to DeSantis' 20.0 percent, Haley's 18.7 percent, and Ramaswamy's 7.7 percent.

"It really is an honor that, minutes after, they've announced I've won—against very credibly competition—great competition, actually. It is a tremendous thing and a tremendous feeling," Trump explained. "We have to get our country back. Our country has gone through so many bad things over the last three years, and it is continuing to go through bad things."

"I feel really invigorated and strong for our country. We want to Make America Great Again—the greatest slogan ever—and the fact is, that's what we did," he told Fox News. "We're going to quickly do it all again. We are going to fix our border, and we are going to do it quickly."

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