WATCH: A limp parade, and a rising resistance

Today, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, scholar of authoritarian regimes, joined 3,000 Ink and Lucid readers to discuss the weekend’s dueling events: the huge turnout all over the country for No Kings rallies, and the much smaller crowds that turned out for Donald Trump’s limp military spectacle in Washington, D.C.

Trump may have big authoritarian pretensions, but why was it so hard for him to get the military parade he dreamed of? We discuss.

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