President Trump has seized on the nationwide protest movement that followed the death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer to advance his most authoritarian political instincts. This week he threatened to deploy the military to cities whose leaders were unable to contain the violence themselves. Could this be an inflection point in his presidency? And is it time to finally use the F-word in discussing Trump? Fascism scholar Ruth Ben-Ghiat joins Mehdi Hasan to discuss.
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Deconstructed | Radio Free (2020-06-04T10:15:19+00:00) Is This Trump’s Reichstag Fire Moment?. Retrieved from https://www.radiofree.org/2020/06/04/is-this-trumps-reichstag-fire-moment/
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