Dec 22, 2017
Brian Klaas is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show. He is a fellow in Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics. In addition to writing columns and essays that have appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Guardian, Foreign Affairs and numerous other publications, Klaas is the author of several books. His newest book is "The Despot's Apprentice: Donald Trump's Attack on Democracy."
During this week's episode of
The Chauncey DeVega Show, Professor Brian Klaas and
Chauncey discuss how Trump's behavior is in keeping with despots
around the world, the ways that political polarization helps
democracy to fail, and how Trump's apparent incompetence lulled the
public and the news media into a false sense of complacency which
made American fascism possible. Klaas also explains how Trump's
election is a powerful reminder of how there are tens of millions
of Americans who have fascist and authoritarian
inclinations.
In this week's Christmas week
episode, Chauncey DeVega shares some stories about the real people
who are the targets of Trump and the Republican Party's vicious and
evil "tax reform" bill, a plan that is really designed to kill the
useless eaters. To that end, Chauncey reads some stories about
elderly people who have been evicted from nursing homes and thrown
out into the street. And to close out this week's podcast,
Chauncey--who loves animals--can't help but share how macaques are
apparently now having sex with deer in Japan.