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WATCH: Love vs. fascism, with Ruth Ben-Ghiat and Michael Cohen

Can empathy beat authoritarianism? And why is Trump pursuing the most unpopular possible version of his agenda? I discuss with our resident scholar of autocrats and Trump's former attorney

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