YOUTUBE (MS NOW) - ‘HUMILIATION’: Tyranny expert compares Trump to 'The Wizard of Oz'…'NOTHING THERE!'
Tim Snyder sees Trump’s dictatorial tendencies clearly. In a moment like this, he says, “to be radical is to be pragmatic.” Snyder sees through the myth of President Trump’s strength. “He’s not actually strong,” the “On Tyranny” author and historian tells Nicolle, likening the Commander in Chief to the smoke and mirrors that build up the image of the Wizard of Oz. “He’s not actually even that good at being corrupt.” As a scholar of autocracies and failed experiments in democracy, Snyder expresses his disappointment with the American disposition that freedom is guaranteed “because it’s America,” telling Nicolle that we make ourselves more vulnerable by assuming that this democracy will continue to thrive on its…