Welcome to IHIP News. Today I am joined by Jason Stanley. He is a professor of American

Studies and Philosophy at the University of Toronto's Monk School. He is the author of several

books, including erasing history, How Fascists rewrite the past to control the future. That seems

relevant. And also how fascism works, which seems incredibly relevant, considering I think we're living

in the epicenter of it. Jason, how are you today? Decently, decent. And how are you?

Well, hanging in there, I think it's really important.

I want to always bring on experts on my channel so that our listeners can be armed with facts

and expertise as to what is happening.

You probably saw over social media and in the news that ICE executed another

American citizen and seemed to offer no help afterwards and loaded 10 bullets into him. From your

area of expertise, are they priming the public for something here? Is this use of force intentional? Oh, well, I mean,

I'm not sure how you would describe intentional. It's fully expected, right? I mean, you can't

invade an American city with armed goons, masked goons,

who have very little training in preparation,

not that there should be training in preparation

for something like this, for this kind of ethnic cleansing

that we're seeing.

But it's fully expected, and of course, they knew this was going to happen.

And it's part of a preparation for gearing up, trying to incite resistance. And then they want to

incite resistance to get a big backlash to perhaps invoke the Insurrection Act, to perhaps

close down the midterm elections, to just generally give a sense of anarchy and chaos in the streets,

and then give them license to crack down.

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