If Donald Trump’s presidency suggests America is sliding towards fascism, what can we do about it? Picking up on their last conversation, in this episode of Barely Gettin’ By Emma and Chloe look at the role of American institutions in enabling Trump. They compare this with the democratic weakness that enabled the Nazis’ rise to power in Germany in the 1930s, to unpick the myth of America’s uniquely strong, resilient democracy. If Congress, the Senate, and the Supreme Court can’t stop Trump, can Elizabeth Warren save America from a fascist future?
Umberto Eco, ‘Ur-Fascism’, New York Review of Books, 22 June 1995 [$]https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism/
Jane Caplan, ‘Trump and Fascism. A View from the Past’, History Workshop, 17 November 2016http://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/trump-and-fascism-a-view-from-the-past/
David Runciman, ‘Is this how democracy ends?’, London Review of Books, 1 December 2016https://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n23/david-runciman/is-this-how-democracy-ends
Richard Cooke, ‘Christ on a Bike’, in Tired of Winning: A Chronicle of American Decline, Black Inc, 2019.
Pankaj Mishra, ‘Jordan Peterson & Fascist Mysticism’, New York Review of Books, 19 March 2018.https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/03/19/jordan-peterson-and-fascist-mysticism/
Samuel Merrill, ‘Punching Nazis: What Would Indiana Jones Do?’, The Conversation, 24 January 2017.https://theconversation.com/punching-nazis-what-would-indiana-jones-do-71756
‘Every Nazi Punch from Raiders of the Lost Ark’https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47nkHeMGsuo
And here’s *that* painting of Trump in the DC swamp...https://www.buzzfeed.com/expresident/crossing-the-swamp-good-painting

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