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"Trump, and the alarm bells of fascism - Transcript
CBC News · Posted: Oct 03, 2025 10:12 AM PDT | Last Updated: 3 hours ago
Front Burner Transcript for October 3, 2025
Host: Jayme Poisson
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JP: Shortly after Donald Trump was elected for a second time in November of last year, historian Timothy Snyder wrote this in The New Yorker: 'Trump's skills and talents go unrecognized when we see him as a conventional candidate. Yet this is our shortcoming more than his. Trump has always been a presence, not an absence: the presence of fascism.' Snyder made the case, including on our podcast, that Trump's lie about winning the 2020 election, the January 6th attack on the Capitol, were clear examples of undermining democracy -- a key tenet of fascism. That Trump's focus on declaring an enemy, whether they be Democrats or immigrants, another key tenant of fascism. Snyder's warning about fascism feels particularly relevant at this juncture in Trump's second administration. We've seen and talked about on this show masked and armed ICE agents snatching people off the streets in unmarked cars. The escalation of political violence, the deployment of federal law enforcement to deal with so-called epidemics of crime in places like Washington, D.C. And we wanted to have him back on to really help us pull a bunch of these threads together. Timothy Snyder now teaches at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs. He is the author of books like On Tyranny and On Freedom.
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JP: Professor Snyder, welcome back to the show. Thank you so much for making the time.
TIMONTHY SNYDER: Very glad I can do it.
JP: I'm hoping today we can go through a bunch of recent examples with you to get a sense of how someone like you is thinking about them. And let's start with earlier this week.
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