A Historical Lens on Trump’s Authoritarianism
And what we can learn from earlier fear-based political structures?

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Episode Notes
Virginia Heffernan talks to renowned historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat about seeing Donald Trump through an authoritarian lens, a deeper look at mafia culture, and how Trumpism will one day fall.
Podcast production by Melissa Kaplan. Engineering help from Merritt Jacob.