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.
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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More Live conversations this week!
Tomorrow, Tuesday, June 17, at noon Eastern, we’ll talk with Texas Congressman Greg Casar; then at 12:30 p.m., we’ll have a piano-side conversation with musician, activist, and author Adam Met. And on Wednesday, June 18, at 12:30 p.m. Eastern, Omar El Akkad, author of One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, will join our Book Club meeting.
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