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Don’t Call Him a Fascist

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News Commentary, Politics, News

4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2016

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Jacob Weisberg talks to Professor Stanley Payne about why we should reconsider calling Trump a fascist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:04.2

You know, she's got this goofy friend named Elizabeth Warren.

0:07.9

She goes,

0:08.8

and Donald Trump is a terrible person.

0:11.9

She gets nothing done, nothing passed.

0:14.1

She's got a big mouth.

0:15.4

That's the best you could come up with.

0:17.3

Calling on Donald Trump for help is like,

0:20.5

if your house is on fire, calling an arsonist.

0:30.2

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast.

0:32.0

The show about the man who Richard Nixon predicted

0:35.2

would be a winner in politics, Donald Trump.

0:38.2

I'm Jacob Weisberg.

0:40.0

So when we want to reach for the worst political insult available

0:43.5

for someone on the right, what do we say?

0:45.6

We say he's a fascist.

0:47.7

And a lot of people have been saying exactly that about Donald Trump.

0:51.5

Based on his racism, his enthusiasm for violence,

0:55.2

his attacks on the free press, etc.

0:58.6

Who calls for a ban on Muslims?

1:00.4

A fascist, right?

1:02.0

But does it make any sense to talk about Trump that way?

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