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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 a speech to military officials, President Trump offered some of his most explicitly fascist remarks yet.

He said America is under invasion from within, that the generals in the room will be enlisted in a war against that enemy, and that

U.S. cities should be used as military training grounds. We think this is Trump's most explicit

declaration yet that he sees large swaths of America as themselves constituting a kind of enemy

nation within our borders.

That kind of talk has a long history on the right, but Trump and MAGA are supercharging this sort of politics in a way that appears new, or at least newly emboldened.

Ian Rifowitz, a history professor at SUNY Empire State University, is co-author of a new book called Riling Up the Base,

which looks at how Trump trades on longtime right-wing political tropes and stereotypes to fuel MAGA's

politics of grievance and hate. So we're unraveling all this with him. Ian, thanks for coming on.

Thanks for having me, Greg. It's a pleasure. So this speech was really something else.

Let's just start with the most clear-cut statement of Trump's big idea, if you can call it that.

Only in recent decades did politicians somehow come to believe that our job is to police the far reaches of Kenya and Somalia while America is under invasion from within. We're under invasion

from within. No different than a foreign enemy, but more difficult in many ways because they

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