Historian Timothy Ryback: “Hitler could only have dreamed” of Trump’s fanatical support

Photo caption: U.S. Republican Presidential nominee former President Donald Trump arrives at his campaign rally at the Bojangles Coliseum on July 24, 2024 in Charlotte, North Carolina. Photo credit: Brandon Bell / Getty Images. Interview article by Chauncey DeVega. Salon – July 30, 2024.

The world has seen a version of this story before: A charismatic leader and demagogue with a God complex leads a populist-authoritarian movement and rises to power by claiming to be the savior of a people. This leader and his propagandists mine the resentment, hostility, anxiety and frustration of a disaffected population and […]

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