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His Rise to Power

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News, Politics, News Commentary

4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2016

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Jacob Weisberg talks to historian Timothy Snyder about his most recent Slate piece, "Him," and whether Hitler's rise to power can tell us anything about today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:04.6

He really has a deep animosity to the press.

0:08.7

So keep reminding yourself, this is not normal.

0:11.6

And we've normalized it already.

0:13.7

Less than a week after the election is over,

0:16.4

suddenly Washington is going about its business,

0:18.5

talking about who's going to get what jobs,

0:20.2

and you would think that Mitt Romney had won.

0:22.5

It's a hallucination.

0:24.1

There's a problem.

0:31.0

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast,

0:33.3

the show about the man who says there was nothing funny

0:36.3

on Saturday Night Live, Donald Trump.

0:39.7

I'm Jacob Weisberg.

0:41.5

Come on, not even that sketch about the bubble.

0:43.7

It's like Brooklyn, but with a plastic dome over it,

0:46.3

that was one of the best things I've seen on SNL in years.

0:49.6

So something else happened on Saturday too.

0:52.2

The National Policy Institute just had its conference

0:55.3

a few blocks from the White House in Washington.

0:58.3

That's the innocuous sounding name

1:00.4

to the alt-right group led by Richard Spencer.

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