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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)

@JamesBurroughs-x7c 2026-03-22

MAGA, the Heritage Foundation, and Turning Points need to be completely dismantled and defunded. Media monopolies also need to crumble, with some accountability for knowingly and falsely reporting.

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@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.

96 7 replies
@vascodesena 2026-03-22

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

84 3 replies
@phillipgoings4015 2026-03-22

Brown shirts Sounds like ice to me.

69 2 replies
@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%.

54 6 replies
@davesky538 2026-03-22

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

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@GraDay 2026-03-22

Remove EVERYTHING - EVERYONE linked to trump.

49 1 replies
@brucefoster8382 2026-03-22

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

39 1 replies
@Travistravis-sk9tp 2026-03-22

Complete lack of accountability and a mass desire for extreme corruption. What could go wrong?

38 1 replies
@comrtnz 2026-03-22

Denial has destroyed successful kingdoms, dynasties and countless families.

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