The more under threat people feel, the more likely they are going to be to dispense with their commitments to things like individual liberty. So i write my pece partisan animosity suits the authoritarian elements of of both sides just fine. But if you're whipped up into fear and fury, you'renot going to be thinking rationally. And so this is why we need to be aware of the ways in which there's a tight rope that we have to walk between raising the alarm about these authoritarian or illiberal, or even facistic, things that we're seeing happening in our politics.
Elements on both the left and right are tracking in the same illiberal direction on economic regulation, the First Amendment, and on radical rhetoric. Plus, the NatCons’ plan to get the country to go full Trump. Stephanie Slade joins Charlie Sykes today.