Yale history professor Timothy Snyder, who is an expert on authoritarianism, this weekend argued that all of former President Donald Trump’s recent “fascist display,” “dark language” and “attempts of intimidation” is aimed at just one thing, making people afraid.
“Once you see through that trick, once you recognize that that’s all they have got, then you see, ‘OK, Trump is a bully I can knock over with my little finger, or just a bully I can knock over with the hand I use to cast my vote,’” Snyder, the author of “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century,” told MSNBC’s Ali Velshi.
Velshi had asked Snyder what he was telling people about “feeling overwhelmed, scared and anxious” ahead of the 2024 election, which polling still says is remarkably close between Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, his Democratic rival.
“That is the perfect question because the people who want to bring the system down, the people that want to make America…
