If youβre like Todd Beeton, youβve been watching Donald Trump roll out his MAGA cabinet picks with a weird combination of jaw dropping shockβ¦and a big helping of βtold you so!β vindication. But just how mind-numbingly awful are his choices, actually? Dig into this question with a new piece from The Big Picture.
The words βfascistβ and βauthoritarianβ are used often to describe Donald Trump and his minions, and rightfully so. But what do those terms really mean in practice? Today, Jay Kuo uses the work of Professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat to contextualize Trump's brand of fascism, which he is already deploying against us.