The Rise of the Anti-Fascist Coalition

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The center-left and the left-left decided that desperate times called for desperate measures. They put aside their differences and came together in this broad-based unified, explicitly anti-fascist coalition. On Bastille Day, 200,000 from through Paris, shouting, hang de la Roch. And they won. Just a resounding victory.

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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