trump effort to basically overthrow the u.s. government last year. persuading his followers to believe the big lie, that the 2020 election was somehow stolen even though there was never ever any evidence to support that. snider says in his new afterward quote, the big lie, a term that originates with hitler, became central to american political discourse after i applied to trump s claim to have won an election that he lost. the concept of the big lie which i reintroduced discussion in 2019 and 2020, helped millions of people see how mendacity of a certain scale of facts politics overtime. making democracy ever more difficult. joining us now is timothy snyder, he is professor of history at yale university. he is the author of blood land, your between hillary and stolen. it is out and you didn t just week. professor snyder, really nice of you here in this person. nice to see you. let me ask you about that last quote that i just read. mendacity of a certain scale. how mendacity of a certa
can do very work in it among many other things professor snyder reflects on his contribution to popularizing the use of the term, the big lie. in reference to form presidents trump effort to basically overthrow the u.s. government last year. persuading his followers to believe the big lie, that the 2020 election was somehow stolen even though there was never ever any evidence to support that. snider says in his new afterward quote, the big lie, a term that originates with hitler, became central to american political discourse after i applied to trump s claim to have won an election that he lost. the concept of the big lie which i reintroduced discussion in 2019 and 2020, helped millions of people see how mendacity of a certain scale of facts politics overtime. making democracy ever more difficult. joining us now is timothy snyder, he is professor of history at yale university. he is the author of blood land, your between hillary and stolen. it is out and you didn t just week. profess