Apr 28, 2017
Historian Timothy Snyder is the guest on this week's
episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show. He is an
award-winning professor of history at Yale University and author of
numerous books including Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler
and Stalin as well as Black Earth: The Holocaust as
History and Warning. His newest book
is On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth
Century.
During this week's show, Professor
Synder and Chauncey discuss how American Exceptionalism is a lie
that helped to pave the way for Donald Trump's regime, how best to
describe Trump's politics, and how the public discourse in the
United States remains unable to properly grasp the threat to
democracy posed by this crisis in democracy. Professor Snyder and
Chauncey also talk about the allure of Antisemitism for Trump's
White House, what resistance should look like in this moment, and
how long American democracy has before it fully succumbs to
authoritarianism.
In this week's podcast, Chauncey
talks about going to C2E2 in Chicago and in the interest of public
decency offers some fashion advice for cosplayers. Chauncey also
shares a story about financial insecurity among older Americans and plays
an audio recording from the legendary Studs Terkel about how
African-Americans would try to help poor white people in the South
during the Great Depression.
Good listen though I do think Trump is too stupid and greedy to have the intelligence or patience to turn America into a dictatorship