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Best of: Why fascism in America isn't going away

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Politics of Eternity

Sally Kohn: Trumps sloly make america great again, is such a perfect fucking distillation of the fastious pitch. And i want to mention your colleague at yale, timothy snyder, calls this the politics of eternity. In other words, it wasn't about passing legislation or bettering anyone's lives. He defined the problem in such a way that they can't be solved, right? Because we can't go back in time. We can't retrieve some imaginary golden past.

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