Ruth Ben-Ghiat

We all know that.

And so, and then he's associated with the Trump family.

And so they could just do musical chairs and keep going.

And at that point we are in an official like oligarchy, right?

It's just that it's all very sensitive because, and this goes back to why Trump was like,

it's seditious to ask about my health because asking about his health opens the door to either his mortality or the fact he'll just be too, he'll get older and not be as competent because he's human, everybody gets older.

But they can't hear about that.

So having the son mentioned, that's what Ferdinand Marcos did, and now Bongbong Marcos is in power.

So sometimes they do that, and that way they can keep all their goodies and corruption going through the family.

But we're going to have to keep our eyes on this issue because it's a really interesting issue if you study autocrats, this who's going to succeed.

Not too much, because I have to say that it's extremely important for successful civil resistance that it remain nonviolent.

And the fact that we've had virtually no violence in very dire situations, people who, you know, during the Civil Rights era, people took nonviolent training so they wouldn't react to being provoked by the thuggish police in the South at that time.

And here we have ICE.

So there's been very, very few examples of violent retaliation, and that's very good.

That's why the resistance is able to spread.

And when we talked about elites before and trying to get elites to defect, if you start with violence, you lose those people.

Um, then the, for example, the coaches, uh, of the Warriors and the NFL, they can't support anything that's, that's violent.

Um, nobody, nobody would.

So that's, that's why it's, um, I don't, I don't so far judging from what's gone on.

I, I'm not worried about that, um, right now.