Moore actually and on Bill Mars show this is in 2016 and I want to let you listen to what

he said about how we should have seen what was coming because Brexit happened take a

look.

And I have to say, I mean, I'm sorry to have to kind of be the bus kill here so early on, but I think Trump is going to win.

I'm sorry. I live in Michigan. Let me tell you.

Let me tell you what he's this he's gonna it's gonna be the Brexit strategy.

The middle of England is Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. And Mitt

Romney lost by 64 electoral votes. The total electoral votes of those four states in the

Rust Belt Belt 64.

I mean I doubted it that night. He was right, you know, Ruth, and the signs that we're seeing again, you're already seeing threats from Donald Trump's people sweeping raids, giant camps, mass

deportations, he's already saying that's what's going to happen, the kind of

rhetoric and the far right you know the consolidation of that kind of thing and normalization of it it

does feel like a warning sign and to me builders isn't another Trump Trump is

another builders in a way, right?

Oh yeah and that's why he's in my book, Trump. And it was a struggle to have him in my book and it's been a struggle to get Americans to see him as an authoritarian.

It's in part because we're very wedded to this idea that we are a democracy where these things can't happen.

And we've seen, I mean we had a coup attempt and people are not quite able to digest that we had a coup attempts that came

far closer to succeeding than many realize. And you know Trump has been conditioning people to find violence attractive, to say it's justified sometimes as patriotic.

He's conditioned people along with all of his enablers, Fox News, and the GOP, to have little faith

in elections and now to dehumanize immigrants. The whole checklist, the whole playbook he's done now for

you know six seven years very effectively. So there's zero reason in my mind having done research that shows every

people who face the authoritarians thought that they were in denial they thought

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