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WATCH: A limp parade, and a rising resistance

Ruth Ben-Ghiat and I discuss the weekend’s dueling gatherings

Today, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, scholar of authoritarian regimes, joined 3,000 Ink and Lucid readers to discuss the weekend’s dueling events: the huge turnout all over the country for No Kings rallies, and the much smaller crowds that turned out for Donald Trump’s limp military spectacle in Washington, D.C.

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Trump may have big authoritarian pretensions, but why was it so hard for him to get the military parade he dreamed of? We discuss.

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