isolationist fascism. and it poses a distinct danger to our democratic values. riding in the atlantic, browning owns, quote, just as state republicans have become more ruthlessly autocratic and their methods, a new trump presidency would be much more efficiently goal oriented at the federal level. a huge transformation of the administrative state is being deliberately planned. the government agencies and civil service he has a quite as the deep state would be purged or politicized, and the retribution he promised against his enemies would also be carried out in a new trump administration, total devotion to the leader would be the sole qualification for appointment, end quote. i m now joined by the author of that piece, doctor christopher browning. he s a professor of american history at university of north carolina, chapel hill. he s also the author of the origins of the final solution, the evolution of nazi jewish policy. also with us, doctor even mcclain, and historian and professor,