A Historical Lens on Trump’s Authoritarianism

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🗓️ 21 December 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Virginia Heffernan talks to renowned historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat about seeing Trump through an authoritarian lens, a deeper look at mafia culture, and how Trumpism will one day fall. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	To me, it doesn't feel like impeachment last night.
0:02.2	I said it.
0:03.4	We had a great time last night.
0:05.8	The room was packed.
0:07.5	Thousands of people couldn't get in.
0:10.4	A section that really is a pretty much 50, 50 section
0:13.8	in terms of Democrat Republican.
0:16.3	We had every one of those people
0:18.8	is voting for Trump Pence, every one of them.
0:21.8	And it's Michigan, an important state.
0:23.9	We brought back tremendous amounts of business,
0:26.1	tremendous car companies coming in, everything else.
0:28.7	And I'll tell you, I was up there.
0:29.7	And I was thinking about, I actually said it.
0:31.8	It doesn't feel like impeachment.
0:36.0	This is directly related to our security.
0:38.8	The Trumpet shutdown is undermining that.
0:40.9	We're not paying people, people say.
0:42.6	Let's pay the employees.
0:43.7	Maybe he thinks it's OK not to pay people who do work.
0:46.9	I don't.
0:48.0	And my caucus doesn't either.
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