Jason Stanley

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717 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 29 Aug

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Well, it's very characteristic for dictators to call for emergencies and special mem uh special measures.

I mean, this is the enabling act in Nazi Germany.

Like you you say that the country is under threat, all special all uh all normal events ha and normal procedures have to be called off and

You need just to seize individual control.

This is what uh we've been expecting from Trump uh from the beginning.

Uh Timothy Snyder warned about it as far back as 2016.

Uh uh it's just uh the iconic characteristic uh the national emergency is the iconic.

Characteristic behavior of dictators.

Painfully unoriginal.

This is what I always say.

It's a paint by numbers fascism we're seeing.

It's it it's boring.

It it it it it

demands very little of those of us who give analysis.

Our our main question, really, those of us who who do the analysis here is why does the mainstream media so frequently normalize what's going on?

Yeah.

And why do they deny reality?

That's the really puzzling question about the current moment and the recent past.

The puzzling question is not what they are

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