How mendacity of a certain scale affects politics overtime. can you just tell us what you mean? well that s the public relations advice is from hitler. hiller says if you tell a lie that s of a certain scale, that s big enough, people won t believe that you could deceive them on that scale. and since they believe and they taken first, they don t want to disbelieve later on. it becomes part of their life, becomes will we now call in article and of reality because it shows politics. then because substantially just alina marie but in policy. you act as if it s true, and then you move on to do things as though it were true. so in our example, if we pretend that trump won the election 2020, then we have an argument for suppressing votes. because we can say well there was fraud therefore we should suppress votes. it s because of the sort of commitment part of that, it makes it feel undoable. because if x number of people become invested in it because they have once believed it.
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
Today. he denied that he said he would tell trump to resign. that he said he woul tell trump t in 2010, you historian tim snyder published a new history kind of a shocking new history of world war ii professional specialize in the history of central eastern europe and the book was called blood lands. europe tween hitler and stalin. that book took on really for the first time would happened in total on the land east of roland and west of moscow between 1933 and 1945. he elected to do something that nobody had ever really try to do about that geography and the world in that time. he told a single history, a single story of the 14 million people who were killed in that part of the world while both hitler and stalin help power. 40 million people who were not
Scale affects politics overtime. can you just tell us what you mean? well that s the public relations advice is from hitler. hiller says if you tell a lie that s of a certain scale, that s big enough, people won t believe that you could deceive them on that scale. and since they believe and they taken first, they don t want to disbelieve later on. it becomes part of their life, becomes will we now call in article and of reality because it shows politics. then because substantially just alina marie but in policy. you act as if it s true, and then you move on to do things as though it were true. so in our example, if we pretend that trump won the election 2020, then we have an argument for suppressing votes. because we can say well there was fraud therefore we should suppress votes. it s because of the sort of commitment part of that, it makes it feel undoable. because if x number of people become invested in it because
Only xfinity will upgrade your tech after 3 years for a more reliable connection. get that and more with xfi complete. in 2010, yale historian tim upgrade today. snyder published a new history kind of a shocking new history of world war ii professional specialize in the history of central eastern europe and the book was called blood lands. europe tween hitler and stalin. that book took on really for the first time would happened in total on the land east of roland and west of moscow between 1933 and 1945. he elected to do something that nobody had ever really try to do about that geography and the world in that time. he told a single history, a single story of the 14 million people who were killed in that part of the world while both hitler and stalin help power. 40 million people who were not