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What History Tells Us about Trump's DISASTER Presidency

2026-03-22 Entertainment
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Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz discuss how authoritarian regimes get worse and worse, how people engage in denial with reality, and what an indecent and by contrast a decent society is, with Ian Buruma, author of “Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939-1945.” https://www.amazon.com/Stay-Alive-1939-1945-Ian-Buruma/dp/059365434X Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become a member of Legal AF YouTube community: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJgZJZZbnLFPr5GJdCuIwpA/join Become a member of the Legal AF Substack: https://michaelpopok.substack.com/20off Follow Legal AF on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/legalafmtn.bsky.social Follow Michael Popok on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mspopok.bsky.social Subscribe to the Legal AF podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/legal-af-by-meidastouch/id1580828595 Subscribe to the Intersection with Michael Popok podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-intersection-with-michael-popok/id1818863274 Subscribe to Unprecedented with Michael Popok and Dina Doll podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unprecedented-by-legal-af/id1867023089 Subscribe to Court of History with Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-court-of-history/id1867022920

Top Comments (10)

@joeanderson8839 2026-03-22

The people of Germany stood by and made excuses while Hitler rounded up millions of their neighbors and slaughtered them. This kind of complacency is happening in the United States when it comes to Trump and the Republican party that is in power now.

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@vascodesena 2026-03-22

What history tells us is… that people are always too slow to realize and act on a crime in progress

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@phillipgoings4015 2026-03-22

Brown shirts Sounds like ice to me.

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@keithstern1593 2026-03-22

More than 1.2 million Americans died from Covid that spread during Trump's first term. We did worse than almost every other country due to his lack of leadership. Does anyone know if he was in favor of masking or opposed? In favor of vaccines or opposed? In favor of closing public gatherings or opposed? How many will die in his second term from war, famine and disease? This is class genocide—a war against the working class (being replaced by technology), the displaced poor, the elderly who are seen as draining public funds provided by the top 20%.

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@GraDay 2026-03-22

Remove EVERYTHING - EVERYONE linked to trump.

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@davesky538 2026-03-22

Thanks. Trump dogma is without truth/facts/ethics. It's crap and must be flushed down.

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@brucefoster8382 2026-03-22

The reason I don't ask "What else can go wrong?" is because I always get an answer.

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@RobertScott-pp6gj 2026-03-22

Having lived in London for 90% of my 72 years, from what I've heard, the bombing of civilian areas leads also to a determination not to be ruled by such evil people. That is particularly felt in Ukraine, where most of the population can remember being ruled by Russia, with considerable cruelty.

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@comrtnz 2026-03-22

Denial has destroyed successful kingdoms, dynasties and countless families.

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@GrahamDobson-l2v 2026-03-22

As historians trace how 1930s Germans dismissed rising zealots as mere clowns; Americans confront their own populist surges that sneer at elites and stoke humiliation; yet when those wounded crowds pivot from grievance to vengeance the fulcrum shifts and the danger sharpens; and so the moral weight falls on citizens choosing whether to resist or rationalize indecent power as it hardens.

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