instincts that trouble me a lot in terms of somebody who derides the importance of the press, calls you all the enemy of the people, who thinks he is above the law, who is in fact exacerbating the differences that exist in our society, and is somebody that kind of plays the crowds in a way that i find dangerous in terms of propaganda and has created a situation where there is identification with one group of people while there is no recognition of the individual rights of the others. and so that s the kind of thing and i went the book is actually historical in terms of not just looking at mussolini and hitler, but what are the issues, where has facism poked its head up again and what s going on? it is a warning. the saying, see something, say something, i m saying do something. and that s what the book is about.
benito mussolini in mill. . two days later adoll of hitler committed suicide. facism it appeared was dead. the writer went on to make the case that this much revield political philosophy is not dead and rearing its ugly head again. the argument was strikes as was the person who pen to do. i asked her to tell us what she is seeing. born in czechoslovakia. madeleine albright she was the first female secretary of state. the author of a new book titled simply facism, a warning. welcome back, madam secretary. thank you so much. good to be with you. a lot of people would listen to that and say i kind of get it but you re going too far. whatever trump may be, facism you re going too far with that analogy. i m not calling him a facist. i m saying that he is a president that has undemocratic
if you d have told me three years ago. that we d be downloading in seconds, what used to take. minutes. that guests would compliment our wifi. that we could video conference. and do it like that. (snaps) if you d have told me that i could afford. a gig-speed. a gig-speed network. it s like 20 times faster than what most people have. i d of said. i d of said you re dreaming. dreaming! definitely dreaming. then again, dreaming is how i got this far. now more businesses in more places can afford to dream gig. comcast, building america s largest gig-speed network. last week the new york times published a most thought provoking opinion piece about facism. here is how it started. on april 28th, 1945. . italians hung the corps of
you point out in the historical sections that one of the important things people forget is how incremental the rice of facism was. it didn t all of the sudden happen. there was a step here, a erosion of liberty here and there, weakening democracy z. that s right. and one of the incredible quotes is something mussolini said. you pluck the chicken one feather at a time and people don t notice. it s not some overt overthrow. what i also found interesting in doing the research, that mussolini and hitler, and what is going on now in parts of europe in hungary and poland and turkey, the philippines and venezuela, these were people either elected or got power constitutionally. it s the communists that actually had revolutions. but the part that got to me was the fwakt that it undermined the
democratic institutions and yet in fact in some ways they came in democratically. won you say when you look at those comparisons it s been heartening in the american case to see the pushback, the kworts have pushed back, the press continues to push back i would argue. independent agencies like the fbi, even the department of justice push back. very important. and one of the things i do talk about is the resiliency of democracy. i believe in it fully. it requires active participation of people. on my to do list is to make sure more people run for office, speak out, and then there is this push for the press to be able to operate and a recognition that our leaders can t be above the law. i do think that s what s important. and i do believe in the resiliency of democracy, thank goodness. for you, facism is very personal. you were actually in europe when