Barry Weiss
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No, no, what... But you also do write novels.
No, no, what... But you also do write novels.
No, no, what... But you also do write novels.
I love this idea of giving history sort of a holiness or a sanctity. If we wind back the clock to 2016, and maybe we'll start to hear some things like this again on cable news, maybe it's happening right now on MSNBC, the comparisons were being made to the 1930s. This is the 1930s, and Trump is a kind of neo-Hitlerian figure.
I love this idea of giving history sort of a holiness or a sanctity. If we wind back the clock to 2016, and maybe we'll start to hear some things like this again on cable news, maybe it's happening right now on MSNBC, the comparisons were being made to the 1930s. This is the 1930s, and Trump is a kind of neo-Hitlerian figure.
I love this idea of giving history sort of a holiness or a sanctity. If we wind back the clock to 2016, and maybe we'll start to hear some things like this again on cable news, maybe it's happening right now on MSNBC, the comparisons were being made to the 1930s. This is the 1930s, and Trump is a kind of neo-Hitlerian figure.
Other historians, I'm thinking of, you know, Walter Russell Mead has compared this era to a kind of pre-World War I era. Neil Ferguson, a free press columnist, has said it's a kind of new Cold War that's starting to get very, very hot in places. At the risk of sort of forcing you to make a crude comparison to this moment, What does this moment remind you of?
Other historians, I'm thinking of, you know, Walter Russell Mead has compared this era to a kind of pre-World War I era. Neil Ferguson, a free press columnist, has said it's a kind of new Cold War that's starting to get very, very hot in places. At the risk of sort of forcing you to make a crude comparison to this moment, What does this moment remind you of?
Other historians, I'm thinking of, you know, Walter Russell Mead has compared this era to a kind of pre-World War I era. Neil Ferguson, a free press columnist, has said it's a kind of new Cold War that's starting to get very, very hot in places. At the risk of sort of forcing you to make a crude comparison to this moment, What does this moment remind you of?
Because everyone's sort of reaching for a way to explain it. And the only way they seem to be able to do that is to look to the past.
Because everyone's sort of reaching for a way to explain it. And the only way they seem to be able to do that is to look to the past.
Because everyone's sort of reaching for a way to explain it. And the only way they seem to be able to do that is to look to the past.
But... Well, let's just touch on it. Yay or nay? What did you think that was? We're talking about Elon Musk, of course.
But... Well, let's just touch on it. Yay or nay? What did you think that was? We're talking about Elon Musk, of course.
But... Well, let's just touch on it. Yay or nay? What did you think that was? We're talking about Elon Musk, of course.
Nay. Okay.
Nay. Okay.
Nay. Okay.
And I think that my view on the last election was... And I think one of the things that's so amazing about that incident is the people that were most up in arms about it have had either nothing to say about the explosion of anti-Semitism over the past year and a half especially. But... Or they have literally apologized for it. So like, forgive me if I'm not tearing my hair out.
And I think that my view on the last election was... And I think one of the things that's so amazing about that incident is the people that were most up in arms about it have had either nothing to say about the explosion of anti-Semitism over the past year and a half especially. But... Or they have literally apologized for it. So like, forgive me if I'm not tearing my hair out.