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This This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.

I'm your host, Greg Sargent. In the last few days, we seem to have crossed a threshold.

President Trump is ratcheting up the authoritarianism and threatening to arrest his enemies

in a new kind of way.

He's angrily hinting at arresting Barack Obama and other members of his administration.

He's openly saying that Obama committed sedition. And he's raging that Senator Adam Schiff is also

guilty of crimes, explicitly calling for him to be put in prison. Critically, however, all this has been

accompanied by a new type of manipulation of the bureaucracy,

one clearly designed to manufacture pretexts for the prosecutions of those enemies.

Ryan Enos, a professor of government at Harvard, put it all very starkly on blue sky,

saying that authoritarianism is right here in front of us.

Ryan added this. You either fight it or you accept that this is our future.

So we're talking to Ryan today about his warning. Thanks for coming on, Ryan.

Yeah, thank you. I'm glad to be here talking about this.

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