mean like whatever the stuff is, the charisma, whatever it is and i guess something i was thinking about reading your book is like what is this thing? what is the thing that makes huey long successful in becoming huey long? what is the thing that makes trump successful? there s a particular kind of type, like author karen populist demagogue. different people have tried it in different ways. it has a lot of commonalities in the rhetoric and some succeed and some don t. i understand the bake dynamics. i understand blaming some small disfavored minority for the nation s ills and inrig separating feeling of communal solidarity that comes with the nation s blood all pumped,
but how? like i want you to get real brass taxes. yeah. process, like where does this seed come of, like, the random anecdote, like that is the start of the thing? it s you re reading all the time or you follow some set of well, in general, it s good to read all the time. right. the one thing i always tell people in our business is if there s one piece of advice i could impart to you, well, if you re a female person who s coming to, first of all, never show your emotions, no one will understand. but otherwise, male or female [ laughter ] good talk. still true, hello. but in general for everybody, read beyond the assigned reading. like, whatever the assigned reading is what s going on in the news cycle, read beyond that, like just you never know what s going to be relevant. read stuff that interests you that is nonfiction and that is journalism and that is history and that is academic work that
fascist societies, it becomes impossible not to be part of the movement. so you may not be an enthusiast, but even if you re not, air probably going to be out there wearing the badge and doing the thing because there s no choice. i mean, you create the illusion of unitary nation who s all subject to and a fan of the great leader about whom there is a cult of personal and who you re not allowed to oppose. if fact, there s an amazing huey long line that you quote and huey long i don t think was a fascist but he was an authoritarian, who says, you know, you could get to a point where it looks like it s a digit si. it s not a democracy anymore because people will just so happy with the leader. i mean, no one is complaining anymore, because you just solved everything. yes. this was his line about
free school textbooks and wore silk outfits and there s all sorts of things you could say about him but really what he was a maestro of was power. that he never met a sort of authority that he could not accrue to himself and that was the thing that you need to be able to do to be able to lead a society in that direction while telling a country, while telling a people that they need to do it, that they can only trust you and that their enemies are out to get them and that you re the only one who can protect them from those enemies. that s how it works. playing . but the real mystery was her irritated skin. so, we switched to tide pods free & gentle. it cleans better, and doesn t leave behind irritating residues. and it s gentle on her skin. tide free & gentle is epa safer choice certified. it s got to be tide. she found it. the feeling of finding the psoriasis treatment she s been looking for. sotyktu is the first-of-its-kind, once-daily pill for moderate-to-severe
us today who didn t sign up to be heroes but hero yichl is coming to their door? [ applause ] crossing reference, right? so i am energized, i am energized by that but i also feel like for all of us, being a 250-year-old democracy is hard. there aren t that many and the seeds of anti-democratic projects and authoritarian projects are within the heart of every person who lives in a democracy because democracy, like you were saying at the outset, chris, is about us all deciding something together, us as equals with our rights and our sacred lives given to us by the almighty god. and equal before one another can decide together how we will be governed. and that is a beautiful thing, unless you think that some of the people who are in your politie with you shouldn t get a say because they re creeps and who among us has not felt that way? [ laughter ] it s not an evil thing to think. actually i ve got a better idea than you, you shouldn t get a say. it s a natural thing, but as