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At a rally in Nevada over the weekend, Barack Obama offered a blistering new takedown of Donald Trump.

Obama warned that Trump's threats to persecute the enemy within should be taken with deadly seriousness and made the case that Trump's latest

displays are not just unhinged, but deeply dangerous in someone who could soon be president

with no guardrails left. Yet even now there does seem to be a

sizable subset of voters who just don't take what Trump is saying all that

seriously and time is running out. Veteran political strategist and analyst Michael Potorzer has a good new piece on his sub-stack,

weekend reading, warning that because of this and other dynamics, we may be sleep walking towards fascism,

pretty much exactly what Obama was warning against.

So today we're talking to Podhorser about what can be done to turn this all around before it's too late.

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