#1339 Recognizing the Signs of Fascism for What They Are (Authoritarianism)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 25 February 2020
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Air Date 2/25/2020
Today we take a look at a post-acquittal, power-mad Trump taking advantage of his thoroughly-confirmed ability to do whatever he wants without repercussion and the work Bill Barr is doing to completely subvert the Justice Department in favor of using it as a tool to favor the President's friends and harm his enemies.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: Corruption of Department of Justice Sets Off Alarm Bells - Rachel Maddow Show - Air Date 2-12-20
Rachel discusses the crisis in the justice department and the authoritarian actions of Trump.
Ch. 2: Trump Tears Democracy To Messes: Is It Too Late? - Thom Hartmann - Air Date 2-13-20
Thom discusses Trump and Barr dismantling justice and democracy.
Ch. 3: The Fragility of American Justice with Dahlia Lithwick - On The Media - Air Date 2-14-20
On The Media explores the ways that American justice is cracking under pressure of the Trump administration.
Brad discusses Trump's power madness after impeachment.
Ch. 5: Justice And Trump with Quinta Jurecic - Brian Lehrer Show - Air Date 2-19-20
Brian talks with Quinta Jurecic about the crisis in the justice department under Trump and Barr.
Ch. 6: Trump Hush Money Case - Rachel Maddow Show - Air Date 2-18-20
Rachel Maddow discusses the corruption of Trump and Bill Barr
Ch. 7: Pardonpalooza with Anne Milgram - Stay Tuned with Preet - Air Date 2-20-20
Preet and Anne Milgram discuss Trump's pardoning spree.
Ch. 8: Has Trump Taken Down Our Democratic Republic? - Thom Hartmann - Air Date 2-15-20
Fascism has taken down democratic Republics multiple times in the past, will this happen to the United States under Trump?
VOICEMAILS
Ch. 9: Solidarity with one, solidarity with all - Eammon from Orange County, California
Ch. 10: How America can avoid hypocrisy on Israel - Erin from Philadelphia
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 11: Final comments on solidarity with threatened communities and strategies to avoid hypocrisy
Bonus: Rep. Peter King's (R-NY) IRA Ties - The Daily Show
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- Closing Music: Upbeat Laid Back Indie Rock by Alex Stinnent
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award winning best of a left podcast in which we shall learn |
| 0:07.3 | about a post impeachment acquittal power mad trump taking advantage of his thoroughly confirmed |
| 0:13.7 | ability to do basically whatever he wants without repercussion and the work of bill bar at the |
| 0:19.2 | Justice Department where he is working to completely subvert the department in favor of using it |
| 0:24.5 | as a tool to favor the president's friends and harm his enemies clips today come from the |
| 0:30.8 | Rachel Maddo show the Tom Hartman program on the media the Bradcast the Brian Lairer show and |
| 0:37.6 | stay tuned with preet. |
| 0:45.2 | But over the last 48 hours as the Justice Department has been thrown into crisis and chaos |
| 0:52.1 | and for the first time we are starting to get resignations on principle from career justice |
| 0:56.7 | department personnel who cannot abide what's being done to the justice system by this president |
| 1:02.5 | over these last 48 hours rule number three for mashy gesson is sticking with me as well. |
| 1:08.2 | Quote rule number three institutions will not save you it took Putin a year to take over the |
| 1:14.5 | Russian media and four years to dismantle its electoral system the Russian judiciary collapsed |
| 1:19.8 | unnoticed the capture of institutions in turkey has been carried out even faster by a man once |
| 1:24.9 | celebrated as the democrat to lead turkey into the European Union Poland has in less than a year |
| 1:31.2 | undone half the accomplishments of a quarter century in building a constitutional democracy |
| 1:36.9 | of course the United States has much stronger institutions than Germany did in the 1930s or |
| 1:42.4 | Russia does today the problem however is that many of these US institutions are enshrined in political |
| 1:48.7 | culture rather than in law and all of them depend on the good faith of all actors to fulfill |
| 1:55.2 | their purpose and uphold the constitution institutions will not save you they depend on the good |
| 2:03.9 | faith of the actors within them boy are we living that so that was mashy gesson just a couple days |
| 2:09.9 | after the 2016 election not long thereafter Timothy Snyder's book on tyranny was published |
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