“How Fascism Works”: Jason Stanley on Trump, Bolsonaro and the Rise of Fascism across the Globe
SHORT VIDEO CLIPS, 22 Oct 2018
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service
In his new book “How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them,” Yale professor Jason Stanley warns about the dangers of normalizing fascist politics, writing, “What normalization does is transform the morally extraordinary into the ordinary. It makes us able to tolerate what was once intolerable by making it seem as if this is the way things have always been.” We speak with Jason Stanley in New York.
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