Madeleine Albright Warns That Fascism Is Making a Comeback

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🗓️ 11 February 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Madeleine Albright fled fascists during her childhood and faced them down as Secretary of State, and today she comes on the podcast to warn that fascism is once again on the rise. She shares how her own refugee experience during World War II and the Cold War shaped her worldview and recalls her meetings with with authoritarian strongmen like Kim Jong-il, Slobodan Milošević, and Vladimir Putin. She reveals that most fascists come into office through democratic elections or a constitutional transfer of powers, not a bloody coup, and in her experience, dictators can be surprisingly normal and polite despite their monstrous cruelty. She discusses the upcoming summit between Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump, says Putin plays a poor hand well and Trump plays a good hand poorly, and calls out Donald Trump as "the least democratic President in American history." Order Madeleine Albright's book Fascism: A Warning on Amazon and follow her on twitter at @madeleine. Today's episode was sponsored by BetterHelp.com. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:59.0	At the end of the 1980s, when the Cold War ended,
1:03.0	many, including former Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright,
1:07.0	believed that democracy had triumphed politically once and for all.
1:11.0	Yet nearly 30 years later, the direction of history no longer seems certain.
1:16.0	A repressive and destructive force has begun to re-emerge
1:20.0	on the global stage, sweeping across Europe, parts of Asia and the United States
1:25.0	that to Albright looks very much like fascism.
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