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Justin Salhani, “When Bannon Visits His Far-Right Friends in Europe,” Arab Weekly (March 25, 2018). https://thearabweekly.com/when-bannon-visits-his-far-right-friends-europe
“The Dean Obeidallah Show,” SiriusXMProgress, February 12, 2018, March 5, 2018
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S.V. Date, “Don’t Worry about Trump the Fascist. Trump the Inept Will Save Us,” Huffington Post , February 6, 2018.
CBC Evening News, February 5, 2018 (on Italian elections).
Tara McKelvey, “Stephen Miller: How much influence does he have on Trump,” BBC News, January 23, 2018.
John Kruzel, “Donald Trump’s ‘fake news’ epithet emboldens despots around the world,” Politfact January 22, 2018.
Alexander Nazaryan, “Trump’s ‘Fake News Awards’ Could Inspire Dictators Around the Globe,” Newsweek January 17, 2018.
Jason Schwartz, “Study: Americans View Media Negatively, Can’t Agree on Meaning of‘Fake News’,” Politico January 16, 2018.
Jack Smith IV, “This is fashwave, the suicidal retro-futurist art of the alt-right,” January 12, 2018.
Gregory Krieg, “Is the Imperial Presidency at Risk Under Trump? Historians Say No,” CNN.com, January 10, 2018. https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/10/politics/trump-change-imperial-presidency-power-history/index.html
Justin Salhani, “There’s a Resurgence of Far Right Groups in Italy and They’re Sponsored by Putin,” ThinkProgress, December 20, 2017. https://thinkprogress.org/italys-far-right-resurgence-putin-d870acc1da53/
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Annalisa Merelli, “Italy’s Neo-Fascism is What Happens You’re you Normalize Extremism,” Quartz, December 1, 2017. https://qz.com/1114170/normalizing-extremism-a-history-lesson-from-italys-fascist-resurgence/
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Stephen Collinson, “Trump’s Authoritarian Streak,” CNN.com, October 12, 2017.http://edition.cnn.com/2017/10/12/politics/donald-trump-autocrats-politics/index.html
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BBC Evening World News, August 14, 2017, on white supremacy in America.
Ishaan Tharoor, “Trump Takes Another Authoritarian Turn with Arpaio Pardon,” Washington Post August 28, 2017.
Amanda Erickson, “What Authoritarianism Experts Think of Trump’s Decision to Pardon Joe Arpaio,” Washington Post , August 26, 2017.
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BBC World News Tonight, August 8, 2017, on white nationalism and Charlottesville.
Daniel Dale, “Trump’s attacks on Sessions, Mueller raise concerns about ‘authoritarian’ tactics,” Toronto Star July 24, 2017. “Trump is Encouraging a Political and Cultural Civil War,”
Background Briefing with Ian Masters, KPFK, July 23, 2017.
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“Ruth Ben-Ghiat Analyzes Authoritarianism & Trump’s Predatory Masculinity,” The Chauncey DeVega Show June 12, 2017. Chauncey DeVega,
“Historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat: Donald Trump ‘Looks like Mussolini’ but can be overcome,” Salon June 10, 2017.
Greg Sargent, “Trump is now raging at Jeff Sessions. This hints at a deeply unsettling pattern,” Washington Post, June 6, 2017.
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Sky News Tonight, August 3, 2016 (on Donald Trump and cults of personality)
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