‘A scam’: Historian Timothy Snyder on Trump’s disingenuous distancing from Project 2025

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Published 2024-08-04
While Trump disavows Project 2025 on stage, his own policy plan, Agenda 47, overlaps with its most extreme tenets. Yale history professor and author Timothy Snyder says that the purging of civil servants from the government, a policy pushed by both Trump and Project 2025, is the first step to establishing “the cult of the leader.”

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All Comments (21)
  • This is not alarmism or hyperbole: this is what they did in Germany in the 1930s.
  • @George-2115
    The great thing about Snyder is you can give him 2 hours or 2 minutes, and he will provide the most important insights that can be communicated within those constraints.
  • @wau22
    Thank you Velshi and professor Snyder for keeping this project 2025 in the forefront 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙
  • @xelamercedes
    Timothy Snyder is on my short list of People I've Never Met But Trust Unconditionally.
  • @v6math
    The same people who complain about DEI also encourage loyalty over expertise?
  • Florida was the test ground for Project 2025 and look how that's going! Good luck.
  • @meghan42
    I'm just ready a Timothy Snyder book called "On Tyranny". It's about how dictators and tyranny arise. Donald Trump is definitely following the guide book on how to become a fascist dictator. No doubt about it!
  • For supporters of the fascist I know of a Shangri-La that Tucker Carlson loves. People who live in Russia never have to worry about voting again It's all taken care of for them.
  • 920 pages seem too long to read the PROJECT 2025 . BUT, ignoring the contents of the 920 pages will be the most harmful thing for voters because now voters should understand the PROJECT 2025 completely.
  • DonOLD has no morals, no scruples, no concept of decency, no integrity .... cannot think of one positive attribute.
  • @Afura33
    Funny Trump saying he knows nothing about project 2025 while his own Vice President JD Vance wrote for the foreword for Project 2025. Go gaslight someone else DonOld.
  • @wovqqr5085
    i truly cannot believe people still support him. it is genuinely mind boggling.
  • @ilirajeti4207
    That what Orban did in Hungary.....that's why they have met him in maralago
  • @Franky46Boy
    Hitler also never took responsibility for the 'Night of the Long Knives'...
  • @unstabl-3
    Only Trump can make up a word… and people actually use it as opposed to calling him a fool for not speaking properly.
  • If trump didn't know about project 2025, then WHY DID HE SIGN OFF ON IT? AND WHY DOES IT MANDATE THAT OUR MILITARY TAKE AN OATH TO HIM INSTEAD OF OUR COUNTRY????