The Night of the New Prime Minister

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Tens of thousands of rioters tried to force their way to the Parliament building. At least 15 people were killed that night and around 2,000 people were injured. The new Prime Minister was trying to make his inaugural speech but right-wing lawmakers drowned him out by singing the French national anthem over and over. This convinces a lot of people in the French establishment that people are really, really angry and they have to sort of give in.

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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