🔥"Violence starts at the borderland"—Historian @TimothyDSnyder explains Trump using immigration feds in #Portland: People are trained to become accustomed to violence by dehumanizing "others" at the border. Authoritarians then bring them back to cities to use against protesters.
@TimothyDSnyder #OnTyranny Historian Snyder: This is why we care about #HumanRights. Why we don’t have lawless zones. Why we don’t treat people who aren’t citizens differently…Because once you give up on human rights, you soon find your #CivilRights—your rights as a citizen—go away too. #Maddow
ICYMI Putin is one of Trump's "most important constituents & allies"—@TimothyDSnyder tells @maddow: Trump's outreach to Putin—7 calls since March—concerns November. Crushed in the polls, w/o much chance to win a "conventional" election, Trump turns to Putin who interfered in 2016
@TimothyDSnyder @maddow 🔥Fascism historian Timothy Snyder tells @maddow that calls w/ Putin & violence in Portland—both escalating—is all about November. Trump needs election help in November. Portland is a dry run for November. If we don't react to it now, we'll see paramilitaries at polling stations.
@TimothyDSnyder @maddow #Maddow's full 7/24 interview w/ Yale Prof Snyder on historical patterns in Trump's authoritarian slide, sending violent paramilitaries from lawless detention camps to Portland, power of mass protests, calls & relationship w/ Putin, election interference
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