Interview Archive: Donald Trump and Authoritarianism
Trump’s coziness with authoritarians is backfiring spectacularly in Syria
“The cost of allying with autocrats like Erdogan and Putin has never been clearer.”
Staring down impeachment, Trump sees himself as a victim of historic proportions
“Trump’s Cult of Victimization”
Dean Obedaillah Show, Sirius XM 10-01-2019
“This is more of Trump’s Politics of Apocalypse.”
CNN Tonight with Don Lemon Interview, August 5, 2019
“With a white nationalist in the White House stoking hatred and 400+ million guns in circulation, America is in uncharted terrain.”
Trump’s controversial “Salute to America” July Fourth event, explained – Vox
“Trump is turning American military might…,into a way to glorify himself and further an agenda which is seen as authoritarian.”
Trump’s Fourth of July Takeover Was Inevitable – The Atlantic
“Trump has to colonize everything…Any holiday, any civic ritual, becomes a Trump ritual.”
A Fascist Trump Rally In Greenville – Huffington Post
“Trump has created a corps of supporters fanatically loyal to him who turn his latest racist messages into group rituals (chants, slogans) and who hate the people he tells them to.”
RNC Giving Out Tickets To Trump’s Hijacked Fourth Of July Celebration – Huffington Post
“The military has been domesticated. I think the will to resist him has evaporated.”
All in with Chris Hayes, MSNBC
“Trump is a marketing master…he’s very dangerous because he knows exactly how to communicate.”
Ashley Parker, “Two more years? Trump’s retweet sets off a furor over the idea of bonus time.” – The Washington Post
“… authoritarians are continually testing the boundaries to see what they can get away with, and everything he does is a challenge to Democrats to mount some response against him,”
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