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Trump arrived in the Oval Office at a moment when levels of inequality in the United States approached those of Russia. Wealth and income in the United States had not been so unevenly distributed between the top 0.1% and the rest of the population since 1929, the year before the Great Depression.
—Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom (2018)
#trump #oligarchy
janhoglund
When Trump spoke of “making America great again,” his followers thought of the decades after the Second World War, a time when inequality was shrinking. Trump himself meant the disastrous 1930s—and not just the Great Depression as it had actually happened, but something even more extreme and frightful…
—Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom (2018)
#trump #maga
#trump #maga
janhoglund
The slogan of Trump’s campaign and his presidency was “America First.” This was a reference to the 1930s… The public face of the America First movement, the pilot Charles Lindbergh, argued that the United States ought to make common cause with Nazis as fellow white Europeans.
—Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom (2018)
#trump #usa

GlennMG hat dies geteilt