People often find out the world they're in after the fact.

And that's what makes this wave of global autocratization, as they call it, much more like the one that was in the 1920s and 30s than the one that was in like the 1960s and 70s.

Because in the 60s and 70s, there were bright lines.

There was a coup outright by the military declaring themselves the caretaker government or there was an armed revolution that won and ousted.

And so it was very obvious.

You were in one country and now you're not.

We're in a different world where most of the autocrats or aspiring autocrats today are elected authoritarians.

Hello, and welcome to WISH's happening with me, your host, Chris Hayes.

Yeah. Hello, and welcome to Why Is This Happening with me, your host, Chris Hayes. You probably have seen footage of protests in the first 100 days of the Trump administration.

I've played them on my program.

Rachel Maddo has been doing an amazing job, sort of collating different protest footage.

And at one level, it's incredibly heartening to see lots of people out on the streets.

I've gone to sort of in a reportorial capacity to go see some of these protests as well.

There's a few of the Tesla takedown protests I've gone and checked out.

And there's some data suggests that in terms of the volume of protests and the places

they're happening, it's actually more widespread now than it was in Trump's first term.

And that at the same time, it also feels like there's nowhere near as many people in the streets

as I kind of feel like there would be or should be.

It's particularly true when you look at some of the protests that have happened recently, for

instance, in Hungary where there's, you know, I think hundreds of thousands and millions of

people in the streets. So there's a kind of weird disconnect. At one level, there clearly is

a vigorous protest movement in the United States that is growing. And you see it

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