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THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

Trump’s Unhinged Fox News Ramblings on “Fascists” Hint at Darker Story

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

The New Republic

News, Politics

4.4800 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The word “fascist” has fully penetrated the presidential race. We just learned that a top general under President Donald Trump described Trump as “fascist to the core.” Trump has been threatening to unleash the military on the enemy within, which numerous observers describe as fascist politics. And at a Fox News event on Wednesday, Trump uncorked an unhinged, rambling response to all this, insisting that the real fascists are Democrats. We talked to David Austin Walsh, a historian and author of Taking America Back, who explains how the American right has overlapped with fascist movements throughout our history—and what that says about our MAGA moment.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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

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I'm your host, Greg Sargent.

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All of a sudden, the word fascist has fully penetrated the presidential race.

1:41.6

We just learned that a top general under President Donald Trump described Trump

1:46.6

as fascist to the core. Trump has been threatening to unleash the military on the enemy within,

1:53.1

which numerous observers have described as fascist politics. And at an event on Wednesday,

1:59.2

Trump uncorked a long, strange, rambling response to all this,

2:03.1

in which he said the real fascists are Democrats.

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Today we're taking a different angle on all this,

2:09.5

looking at how the American right really has overlapped with fascist movements in the U.S. throughout our history.

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