"Erasing History": Yale Prof. Jason Stanley on Why Fascists Attack Education and Critical Inquiry

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Jason Stanley: Did This 2 Min. Video Help Incite the Jan. 6 Rioters? | A...

As former president Donald Trump's second impeachment trial enters its third day, the question remains whether his words or actions incited the January 6 assault on the Capitol. But little attention has been paid to a video that was shown that same day, at the January 6 "March to Save America" rally in Washington, D.C. Jason Stanley, a scholar of fascist propaganda, claims that this short video -- shown immediately after Rudy Giuliani left the stage, prior to the attack on the Capitol -- was full of themes and tactics that threaten liberal democracy. Stanley breaks the video down with Hari Sreenivasan and elaborates on its role in the violence that took place on that infamous day.
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Are Seeds of Fascism Being Sown in the United States? | Amanpour and Company

Jason Stanley is a professor of philosophy at Yale University, and in his new book "How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them," he explores the inner mechanics of fascism and the forces that drive dictatorships. Stanley joins Hari Sreenivasan to explain his concern at signs of fascism on the rise in the U.S.
https://youtu.be/nHFt7Ov0JNs

How Fascism Works review: a vital read for a nation under Trump - the guardian

Yale professor Jason Stanley enters a growing literary field with a sober examination of an inflammatory political concept ....
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/15/how-fascism-works-jason-stanley-review-trump

“How Fascism Works”: Jason Stanley On Trump, Bolsonaro and the Rise of Fascism Across the Globe

In his new book “How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them,” Yale professor Jason Stanley warns about the dangers of normalizing fascist politics, writing, “What normalization does is transform the morally extraordinary into the ordinary. It makes us able to tolerate what was once intolerable by making it seem as if this is the way things have always been.” We speak with Jason Stanley in New York.....
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