life. to the fullest. united states isn t the only country lurching dangerously towards authoritarianism. it is happening all over, indeed. brazilian s elected jair bolsonaro, a man who spouts homophobia and misogyny among other things. i can t think of a more extremist leader in the history
while celebrating at their synagogue in pittsburgh. gunned down, authorities say, by a man filled with anti-semitism, hatred, and the worst ideologies human beings have ever produced. those murders, coming just a day after the apprehension of a man authorities say was driven by his own obsessive hatred, to send improvised explosive devices to those who dare criticize the president, and that, coming just two days after a white man in kentucky stands accused of killing two black people in aiken ken grocery store in an apparent hate crime after he was unable to get into a predominantly black church nearby. and in the midst of this moral crisis of yet another wrenching national reckoning over just who we are and who we want to be, the leader of the political coalition that controls all of the federal government is continuing to stoke the fires of resentment, fear and hatred that led us to this moment. in miami today, caesar sayoc, the trump worshipping florida man who sent 14 bombs to the
these people are gone. these people were killed because a crazy man believed what the president was saying, that there was an invasion at our southern border, you know, from thousands of people who are weeks away, who will probably the caravan will probably be much smaller by the time it gets here, if it gets here. and those people will either have an asylum claim and they ll be able to stay or they won t, and they ll be turned away. there is no national emergency. the president invented a national emergency in order to scare his base to the polls. and the result was that a crazy person or a person who was unstable or an ideologue took him seriously and took matters into his own hands. you heard what steve said. he said, screw your optics, i m going in. they re bringing in invadeers that kill our people. the gunman didn t like the president. he didn t think trump was trumpy enough. but he certainly took his rhetoric on the caravan seriously. and now we see what the consequence are.
country lurching dangerously towards authoritarianism. it is happening all over, indeed. brazilian s elected jair bolsonaro, a man who spouts homophobia and misogyny among other things. i can t think of a more extremist leader in the history of democratic elections in latin america who has been elected. donald trump hasn t called many of the people in his own country who received bombs in the mail this month. he did make time for a congratulatory call to bolsonaro. here to talk about what is going on here in america and beyond new yorker staff writer, the future is history, how totalitarianism reclaimed russia. hi, chris. you have been thinking about and writing about sort of or authoritarianism, democratic retreat and decline in the russian context, in the american context. i can become a universalist. it does seem like there is a moment in the world right now where all of the trends that you put your finger on are on the
president s critics made his first court appearance. sources now telling nbc news sayoc had a list of over 100 potential targets. also in court today the man officials say shouted all jews must die. he was charged with 29 felony counts. the president insists that all of this is entirely unrelated to him. unrelated to his ceaseless demonization of his critics and perceived enemies, unrelated to his defense of the white strem cysts who chanted jews will not replace us in charlottesville, one who drove his car into counter protesters and murdered 32-year-old heather heyer. you had a group on one side that was bad and you had a group on the other side that was very violent. not all of those people were neo-nazis, believe me. not all of those people were white supremacists by any stretch. now, that rhetoric has really not changed, and even in the wake of last week s violence. the president and his allies