Why Is This Happening?

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The assault on the French Parliament in 1934 is to this day simply known as February 6th, even almost 90 years later. If these events and their aftermaths really are similar, we may be living with January 6th for a long time. Chris Hayes has a unique ability to offer insight that is helpful in understanding how the parts fit into the whole. There's no other podcast that will cover fitness one week, communism the next, and climate change the third.

A violent right-wing mob interrupts lawmakers formalizing the transfer of power to a new leader. But this isn’t Washington, D.C., on January 6, 2021, but rather Paris on February 6, 1934. Rachel Maddow and Isaac-Davy Aronson explore that earlier event, the way it reverberates to this day and how it could help us understand what January 6 will mean for the U.S.

Featuring guests:
Jonathan Katz, author of Gangsters of Capitalism
Alice Kaplan, Sterling Professor of French at Yale University, author of The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach

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