Chris Hedges: Trumpland and the Rise of American Fascism | Find link to document in the description box below this video

The dynamiting, by the Trump administration, of decayed and corrupt institutions will mark the end of the American experiment and the shift from inverted totalitarianism to dictatorship.
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The Christian fascists and oligarchs gleefully handing Donald Trump his sharpie and executive orders are not making war on the deep state, the radical left or to protect us from “antisemites.”
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They are making war on verifiable fact, the rule of law and the transparency and accountability that is only possible with a free press, the right to dissent, a vibrant culture and a separation of powers, including an independent judiciary.
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All of these pillars of an open society, as I detail in my book Death of the Liberal Class, were degraded long before Trump. The press, including public broadcasting, academia, the Democratic Party, a corporatized and banal culture, a judiciary that serves the billionaire class and a Congress bought by lobbyists, have been disemboweled.
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They are easily picked off. Few want to rise up to defend them. They sold us out. Let them die.
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Read entire document HERE: https://consortiumnews.com/2025/05/04/chris-hedges-trumpland/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=6439c873-7cba-45e1-a364-e6de0d240139
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Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning author and journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times. He has covered numerous wars across the decades, written many books—including America: The Farewell Tour and American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America—and has been involved in work for prisoner advocacy. In this episode, Robinson and Chris discuss Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and the rise of American fascism. More particularly, they address comparisons between Trump and Hitler, DOGE, the new crisis for the Democratic Party, Israel and Palestine, the Christian far right, Marxism, and more. Chris’s latest book is A Genocide Foretold (Penguin Random House, 2025).

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