Piero Cruciatti/ AFPHow do you solve a problem like Predappio?This small town in the hills of northern Italy where Mussolini was born in 1883 remains something of an enigma. The previous mayor called it the “Chernobyl of Italy”—a place too toxic to touch. It plays host to large neo-Fascist rallies, souvenir shops selling Mussolini trinkets and the tomb of Il Duce himself, which lies in a crypt in the town’s municipal cemetery. All of this co-existing alongside 6,000 citizens in one of Italy’s mo
what he would do starting day one if he wins in november and there is plenty more. weaponnizing the justice department and paving the way for hundreds of thousands of deportations. and so much more after that. if you want to know what a second trump term would look like, it is all in this project 2025 play book. that is why in the days to come, we will be digging into it. highlighting specific passages that every voter should be aware of. tonight, i want to talk to two experts about what project 2025 is. ahmed baba is here. and ruth bengia joins us. author of the book strong man. mussolini to the president. ruth, you have spent a lot of time studying these 900 pages and most people don't know what they are. how would you describe it? >> so they have chosen a very
This weekend, while President Biden championed the merits of democracy during various campaign stops in swing states, former President Donald Trump hosted far-right Hungarian autocratic president Viktor Orbán at Mar-a-Lago and even took him to a concert.Trump's friendliness with the Hungarian prime ...
analyst and co-host of the msnbc podcast how to win 2024. ruth ben-ghiat, history professor at nyu, and author of strongmen, mussolini to the president. and charles coleman junior, msnbc legal analyst, civil rights attorney, former brooklyn prosecutor, and the host of the charles coleman podcast. thank you all very much for spending part of your saturday evening with me. clare, your reaction to that stunning back and forth between trump's lawyer and the member of the appeals court. >> well, i'm ashamed to say he is from missouri. i'm ashamed that. well frankly, and the right has to be very disappointed, maga has to be very disappointed, because they have been peddling to america that all of the ivy league schools are hotbeds of socialism and communism, and brainwashing to the progressive left. this guy is a harvard law grad, how embarrassing for harvard
so the victimhood, i am persecuted works to give a rationale for why they need immunity. and it's been like this ever since mussolini. all remind people, the first dictatorship was set up because mussolini had been -- he was fingered for being part of a political assassination, need to make his problems go away, because needed to at least be prosecuted, so he declared dictatorship in 1925. >> reporter: joyce, we've all depend on the idea that the law works. the institutions largely work. donald trump may have tried to subvert some of them, but generally speaking, other than the policy decisions, things like the fall of roe v. wade, that the institutions held. now that we understand this way of thinking, i understand all trump is gonna try and get out of a political prosecution. if this really does fall his way, are you concerned that
msnbc podcast how to win 2024. ruth ben-ghiat, history professor at nyu, and author of strongmen, mussolini to the president. and charles coleman junior, msnbc legal analyst, civil rights attorney, former brooklyn prosecutor, and the host of the charles coleman podcast. thank you all very much for spending part of your saturday evening with me. clare, your reaction to that stunning back and forth between trump's lawyer and the member of the appeals court. >> well, i'm ashamed to say he is from missouri. i'm ashamed that. well frankly, and the right has to be very disappointed, maga has to be very disappointed, because they have been peddling to america that all of the ivy league schools are hotbeds of socialism and communism, and brainwashing to the progressive left. this guy is a harvard law grad, how embarrassing for harvard law school for him to make the
For a country that races from one crisis to the next with the speed and eagerness of a highly athletic idiot running through a series of plate glass windows, we do sometimes think surprisingly slowly.
opponent is not something any lawyer should ever support their client doing. but that is essentially what donald trump's lawyer walked into a federal courtroom and argued yesterday, that he could order a hit on his political rival or rivals using the united states military without facing any legal accountability. with all that is going on in the world, we can easily lose sight of how truly shocking and deeply disturbing that argument is. but it is imperative that we stop for a moment and come to grips with what this man is having his lawyers say to the world, to america, and to the courts. which is that he can do whatever he wants, including assassination and nothing should be able to stop him. it goes without saying that no person of sound mind would make this argument. which is why it has historically been the province of dictators, like vladimir putin, mussolini, stalin or hitler and not of
american presidents. putin poisons and imprisonens political opponents with zero consequences. mussolini arrested political opponents and endorsed fascist squad violence on his path to power. stalin led a violent political purge of his opponents that left more than a million people dead. and then there was adolph hitler, who before consolidating power said anyone who stands in our way will be cut down. he went on to lead a brutal crackdown on civil rights, freedom of expression, he outlawed political opponents, and had roughly 11 million jews and others exterminated. the paths to these dictatorships have been paved with claims echoed by donald trump. and it is beyond astounding that his ostensibly highly educated attorney walked into a court of law and made the legal case for political violence without