136: Fascism and the American GOP with Brynn Tannehill
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🗓️ 26 May 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Host Reed Galen is joined by Senior Defense Analyst and Author Brynn Tannehill to discuss the characteristics of fascism exhibited in the modern GOP and the trajectory for how those characteristics came to be. Plus, why are Americans so apprehensive to acknowledge the GOP’s dangerous autocratic threats and has the opportunity already passed to save our nation’s democracy? To hear more from Brynn Tannehill, be sure to pick up her latest book, American Fascism: How the GOP Is Subverting Democracy which is available wherever fine books are sold.
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| 0:36.3 | Welcome back to the Lincoln Project. I'm your host, Reed Gailan. |
| 0:40.3 | Today, I'm joined by Brynn Tamahill, a Senior Defense Analyst and Author. |
| 0:45.3 | She served in the United States Navy for over a decade, achieving the rank of Lieutenant Commander. |
| 0:49.3 | She graduated from the Naval Academy with a Bachelor's in Computer Science, as well as from the Air Force Institute of Technology with a Master's in Operations Research. |
| 0:57.3 | She's written for a variety of outlets including the New York Times, Huffington Post, and Slank. |
| 1:02.3 | Her latest book is American Fascism, How the GOP Is Subverting Democracy, which is available wherever fine books are sold. |
| 1:09.3 | Brynn, welcome to the show. |
| 1:11.3 | Thank you. Thanks for having me. |
| 1:13.3 | So, I want to talk about first about your book that came out about a year ago. |
| 1:17.3 | It explains the trajectory of how we got to our current moment as a nation and the threats we continue to face. |
| 1:22.3 | You get particular attention to what you see are the characteristics of fascism and how they're applicable to the GOP base today. |
| 1:30.3 | So, let's start with what you see in particular that mirrors fascism in the Republican Party today. |
| 1:38.3 | So, in the book I looked at a literature view of what a number of different scholars on fascism over the past 50 years have said characterize it. |
| 1:46.3 | And I went through and found the things that the majority of each of them said were a characteristic. |
| 1:52.3 | And that ended up being about 13 things. |
| 1:54.3 | And some of the things that you see in particular are the first one that Elisht is misogyny and sexual anxiety. |
| 2:00.3 | And we could see that getting worse, particularly against LGBT people. |
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