12 Days to Go: French Fries and Fascism

The Daily

The New York Times

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🗓️ 24 October 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Warning: this episode contains strong language. With less than two weeks to go in the race for the presidency, Donald Trump’s longest-serving White House chief of staff is warning that he met the definition of a fascist, Kamala Harris is seizing on the message of Mr. Trump as a threat to democracy and Mr. Trump himself is relying on viral stunts and vulgarity to break through to undecided voters. The Times journalists Michael Barbaro, Michael S. Schmidt, Lisa Lerer, Reid J. Epstein and Nate Cohn try to make sense of it all. Guests: Michael S. Schmidt, an investigative reporter for The New York Times, covering Washington Lisa Lerer, a national political correspondent for The New York Times. Reid J. Epstein, a New York Times reporter covering politics. Nate Cohn, the chief political analyst for The New York Times.

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0:00.0	From New York Times, I'm Michael Bobaro. This is the Daily.
0:05.0	John Kelly told the New York Times, former President Trump is, quote,
0:09.0	certainly an authoritarian who falls into the general definition of a fascist.
0:16.2	With two weeks to go in the race for president, we should point out these are not terms
0:20.4	casually thrown about in American political dialogues, certainly not this close to a presidential.
0:25.5	Donald Trump's longest serving chief of staff is warning that his re-election could lead to fascism.
0:32.0	Donald Trump is increasingly unhinged and unstable.
0:37.0	Kamala Harris is seizing on the message of Trump as a threat to democracy.
0:42.0	In just the past week, Donald Trump has repeatedly called his fellow Americans
0:47.0	the enemy from within.
0:49.0	And Trump himself.
0:51.0	Here's just a start ready.
0:52.0	I'm going for a job right now at McDonald's.
0:55.0	I've had, I really wanted to do this.
0:57.0	Is relying on viral stunts and vulgarity to break through to undecided voters.
1:03.8	So you have to tell Kamala Harris that you've had enough
1:07.2	that you just can't take it anymore.
1:10.1	We can't stand you.
1:11.3	You're a shit vice president.
1:15.7	Today I gathered four of my colleagues, Mike Schmidt, Lisa Laird,
1:21.2	read Epstein and Nate Cohn, to make sense of those developments.
1:27.0	It's Thursday, October 24th.
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