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Sam Harris

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Making Sense with Sam Harris
#456 โ€” American Fascism

You know, he's not going to take Greenland

Making Sense with Sam Harris
#456 โ€” American Fascism

Oh, he and his director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, just accused the previous president, President Obama, of treason, which is a killing offense in most cases.

Making Sense with Sam Harris
#456 โ€” American Fascism

That's not serious.

Making Sense with Sam Harris
#456 โ€” American Fascism

You don't have to listen to any of that.

Making Sense with Sam Harris
#456 โ€” American Fascism

He's just playing around, right?

Making Sense with Sam Harris
#456 โ€” American Fascism

And so there's something about the lack of seriousness that is the style of presentation here.

Making Sense with Sam Harris
#456 โ€” American Fascism

It's a pattern.

Making Sense with Sam Harris
#456 โ€” American Fascism

It's not just Trump.

Making Sense with Sam Harris
#456 โ€” American Fascism

So the second point you raised, the glorification of violence.

Making Sense with Sam Harris
#456 โ€” American Fascism

Now, this, I think, has not been pushed nearly as far as most people think it must be pushed to justify any kind of analogy to what they consider fascism.

Making Sense with Sam Harris
#456 โ€” American Fascism

And this is one place where I even wonder whether Trump is the sort of person who's capable of this.

Making Sense with Sam Harris
#456 โ€” American Fascism

I mean, you think of, you know, the Night of Long Knives.

Making Sense with Sam Harris
#456 โ€” American Fascism

It's finally secured Hitler's power, right?

Making Sense with Sam Harris
#456 โ€” American Fascism

So this is the night where Hitler, having become chancellor, decides, all right, the SA has too much power, is not totally aligned with the SS and the army.

Making Sense with Sam Harris
#456 โ€” American Fascism

I need to keep the conservatives on board.

Making Sense with Sam Harris
#456 โ€” American Fascism

And so what we're going to do in the next 24 hours is murder Hitler.

Making Sense with Sam Harris
#456 โ€” American Fascism

you know, the top 200 people or 100 to 200 people in this organization who have been my loyalists all the while.

Making Sense with Sam Harris
#456 โ€” American Fascism

So what people think about here when you mention violence is the propensity to actually start rounding up people and killing them, right?

Making Sense with Sam Harris
#456 โ€” American Fascism

I must admit that, you know, as sinister as some of these guys seem to me, people like Stephen Miller and J.D.