Conditions that created 1930s fascism—Great Depression, ecological crisis, global economic collapse—do not exist in the United States in 2024, making comparisons between contemporary Trump and Nazi Germany inapt; there is no evidence of 'comparable flowering of affection for fascist dictatorship' in the US.
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“the Great Depression the you know sort of ecological crisis in the United States that none of those are happening now... there is no evidence that you're seeing a comparable flowering of affection for fascist dictatorship today”
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