Ruth Ben-Ghiat: Trump's Dehumanizing Rhetoric Is Adopting Franco's Language of Fascism and Violence

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We speak with Ruth Ben-Ghiat, an expert on facism and authoritarianism, who argues that Trump’s use of the hallmarks of “fascism and violence,” including dehumanizing rhetoric, profane and crude discriminatory language and threats to the “enemy within,” echoes the rise of midcentury fascist rulers like Francisco Franco and Adolf Hitler.

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