A smart piece making an essential point: Trump's authoritarianism has to be located in American history more than anywhere else. https://twitter.com/theshrillest/status/847545493831860224 …
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Replying to @HeerJeet
There's some insight to be gleaned from comparing Trump to foreign autocrats past & present. But he's also a pure product of America.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
Trump's analog isn't Putin or Mussolini but earlier American bigots & authoritarians: KKK, Coughlin, McCarthy, Wallace, Nixon, Buchanan.
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Replying to @phoneranger
Yes, Hearst and Col. McCormick (not to be confused with @noahmccormack)
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