Jason Stanley

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

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IHIP News · Trump In Collapse After World Leaders Call Him 'Mentally Ill And Impaired" Publicly · 15 Jun 2026 podcast

Now we're just trying to get to where Obama had already gotten.

Right.

So I don't like the phrase our democracy, because even at the best of times, we have not had a healthy democracy.

And now that we've eliminated the Voting Rights Act, returned the United States back to the era of Jim Crow, we don't have it.

We're not a democracy anymore because we're not going to have, you know, black citizens in the American South are not going to have political power for decades to come.

So we're no longer, I think, even officially a democracy, I wouldn't say.

But narrative control is central to fascism, to any kind of authoritarianism.

We don't need debate about whether it's fascism or not, what flavor of authoritarianism it is.

Narrative control.

So, you know, my book Erasing History is about why they're attacking universities and schools and the media as well and science.

So we have a full attempt to take over narrative control.

It's all one story here, Jennifer.

It's all the attack on universities, the attack on science.

Now they're

taking over federal grants so that federal science grants have to be politically improved.

Why is that?

Because they you know, you can't have science being independent.

Authoritarianism needs full narrative control.

So you can't have any rogue people telling you, for instance, that, you know, some disease is coming and doing something that you don't want people to think it's doing.

So you need full narrative control.

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