The dark parallels between 1920s America and today’s political climate

The shock created by the US President's rapprochement with the Kremlin revives the debate on the return of fascism.

1930s Revived? Donald Trump Raises Spectre Of Return To Dark Days

European territory annexed, democracies stunned into paralysis and Nazi salutes -- Donald Trump's shock re-engagement with Russia looms over a geopolitical landscape that, for many, has dangerous parallels with the rise of fascism and the West's feeble response in the 1930s. Though a century separates the two eras, historians on both sides of the Atlantic are plumbing the depths of Trump's break with decades of US and European doctrine, at a tim…

1930s redux? Trump raises spectre of return to dark days

European territory annexed, democracies stunned into paralysis and Nazi salutes -- Donald Trump's shock re-engagement with Russia looms over a geopolitical landscape that, for many, has dangerous parallels with the rise of fascism and the West's feeble response in the…

'A new style of coup': Historian reacts to Trump-Musk federal government takeover

Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a history professor at New York University, joins Jonathan Capehart to discuss how President Trump has given new meaning to the phrase "bully pulpit" and how Trump is using the authoritarian playbook in his second term.

The dark parallels between 1920s America and today’s political climate

In the 1920s, some Americans' concern for a U.S. in decline led to a rise in various discriminatory policies and movements that hurt vulnerable minorities. iStock/Getty Images PlusAs promised, the second Trump administration has quickly rolled out a slew of policies and executive orders that the president says are all aimed at “Making America Great Again.” This takes on different forms, including Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency q…

Trump promised policies to make people of color miserable. Now his voters are feeling the pain, too.

The president's proposals are already starting to impact the very people who put him back in office. Trump’s agenda was never just about harming people of color — it was about elevating himself.