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The Gray Area with Sean Illing

Why fascism in Post-Trump America isn't going away

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary, Philosophy

4.511.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Vox's Sean Illing talks to Yale professor and author Jason Stanley about why American democracy provides such fertile soil for fascism, how Donald Trump demonstrated how easy it was for our country to flirt with a fascist future and what we can do about it. Correction 2/1: Professor Stanley suggested in this conversation that West Virginia declined to expand the Medicaid option in 2013. In fact, the state did expand the program and has gradually added enrollment since 2013. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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my host Fox's daily news podcast today explained, but I'm here to talk about Vox Conversations,

0:57.1

the figure in right now where we bring you conversations between some of the brightest minds

1:01.4

and smartest people we know today. We're going to do a deep dive into something scary. But

1:07.0

sadly relevant right now, the topic of fascism. Fox's Sean Illing talks with the Yale Professor

1:12.7

Jason Stanley who wrote a whole book on it. Here is Sean, the other Sean. Take it away, Sean.

1:18.2

The word fascism has been tossed around a lot over the last four years, usually as an epiphyt.

1:32.1

And it's hard to know what it even means anymore. But after Trump, after the attack on the US

1:37.0

Capitol and the specter of violence looming over American politics ever since, this debate

1:43.1

feels much more urgent. Jason Stanley is a professor of philosophy at Yale in the author of How

1:48.4

Fascism Works. It's one of the most influential books on the topic in recent memory. And

1:53.6

stringed as it is, we don't really have a consensus on the meaning of fascism. It's a very slippery

1:58.5

term in trying to apply it is tricky. But Stanley has a somewhat controversial view. Most people

2:03.4

think of fascism as an ideology or a type of government. Stanley says it's a way of doing politics,

2:08.7

a way of seizing power, using language and propaganda. That may sound like an academic distinction,

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