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When the fascism experts are scared, you know it's bad

2026-02-22 News & Politics
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-- Ruth Ben-Ghiat joins us on Substack Live to discuss how Donald Trump’s escalating rhetoric, institutional pressure, and personality cult dynamics fit into historical patterns of authoritarianism Become a Member: https://www.davidpakman.com/membership Subscribe to our (FREE) Substack newsletter: https://substack.davidpakman.com Get David's book: https://davidpakman.com/book Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidpakmanshow Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dpakman Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/thedavidpakmanshow Discord: https://www.davidpakman.com/discord Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/davidpakman.bsky.social Threads: https://www.threads.net/@david.pakman David's tech: Camera: Panasonic Lumix G85 https://amzn.to/4fOir5a Microphone: Shure SM7B: https://amzn.to/3hEVtSH Voice Processor: dbx 266xs https://amzn.to/3B1SV8N Stream Controller: Elgato Stream Deck XL https://amzn.to/4fOGJvE Microphone Cloudlifter: https://amzn.to/2T9bhne Timely news is important! We upload new clips every day! Make sure to subscribe! Original show date: February 17, 2026 #davidpakmanshow #davidpakman #tdps

Top Comments (10)

@thedavidpakmanshow 2026-02-23

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@RandalexK 2026-02-22

A constitution is worthless if politicians ignore it and voters honour the ignorance the same time.

432 18 replies
@JerkyPuck 2026-02-22

It’s not coming. It’s here friends.

485 24 replies
@JNosewicz 2026-02-22

Malignant narcissists are Extremely dangerous. I can’t stress this enough. They have NO upper limits to their chaos, destruction and cruelty in order to achieve their goals. And, they do no have One shred of empathy in their psyche. They leave a trail of victims and survivors, and they do not care about any of them.

500 42 replies
@darondatoole7439 2026-02-22

Those listeners who are not seeing the U.S standing on the precipice of collapse. Wake up people!!!! Thk you for seeing the reality & the urgency.

465 40 replies
@tylerhackner9731 2026-02-22

We are fully in fascism

412 23 replies
@rayspears3929 2026-02-22

Trump is going to keep trying to become dictator, because he knows he is going to prison when he is out of power.

244 14 replies
@mrhanman69 2026-02-22

canadian here. protecting the upcoming elections should be priority one for all americans of intellect and integrity.

49 1 replies
@scottpeterson7500 2026-02-22

A Constitution is just a piece of paper unless it's actually enforced and obeyed.

119 4 replies
@Oddba1l.v2 2026-02-22

President Trumphile needs to be arrested already. Wtf is the hold-up??

363 44 replies

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