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#207 — Can We Pull Back From The Brink?

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Is This a Good Thing for Trump?

Think about the politics of this endless imagery of people burning and loding independent businesses that were struggling to survive during this pandamoc. And it could well kick open the door to a level of authoritarianism that many of us, who have been very worried about trump, barely considered possible. It's always seems somewhat paranoid to me to wonder whether we're living in weimar germany. I had timothy snyder on the podcast, and he's been worring about the prospect of tyranny in the u.S for several years now. i've known in the abstract that democracy can destroy themselves but the idea that it could happen here still seemed totally outlandish to me it really doesn...

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