Timothy Snyder, Yale history professor and author of "On Tyranny," talks with Rachel Maddow about the personal risks that come with standing up for the rule of law when it is threatened by an authoritarian like Donald Trump. Aired on 2/14/2020.
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President Donald Trump Amplifies Risk Of Standing Up For The Rule Of Law | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC
The eventual Democratic nominee should use the Vindman Brothers in a campaign commercial.
And ex Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch.
Keep it up! Looking forward for more videos from you, don’t stop! Would you like to be YouTube friends? 🙂
America is worth the risk, her patriotic heroes know this. 💙🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊
Nominee should bring the Vindman brothers&stormy daniels to every debate,every rally
and trumps ex doctor
@Yellowbeard Which “ex-doctor”, the VA doctor, Jackson (?) or the doctor whose office Trump broke into and stole his medical records?
@88Gibson LesPaul Doctor Bornstein, Donald’s original Doctor had his files removed by Donald’s goons because the files contained info on Donald’s Mental Health.
@88Gibson LesPaul The old nutty one. Bornstein
Read his book “On Tyranny”, it is very small work and not a huge time commitment (I read it twice in an afternoon and made notes during the second read) it is very enlightening. It will help you recover what is right and proper when all is wrong and chaotic in the world. Deceptively simple lessons on complex issues with factual, historical references to underline the point being made.
Nobody knows tyranny better than a Marxist-Democrat.
Nobody knows fascist dictatorship, lies, and anti-American propaganda better than a Nazi-Republican.
@David Lafleche -Commie…
@David Lafleche Cult following pig!
@David Lafleche Thanks for the Fascist Asshat POV, Adolph.
Tyrannical Trump Nuisance is Above the Law ( Deep State )
There’s still no deep state.
Very clever of the Republicans to keep crying Coup! Coup!, all the while carrying out one.
the republicans have pigeons?
I THOUGHT WHISTLEBLOWERS WERE SUPPOSED TO BE PROTECTED FROM PERSECUTION.
The mob calls them rats
Republicans and Democrats agreed to the language of this “Whistleblower Law” protecting the identity and describing the flow of the information. If it were a Democrat under investigation, the Republicans would have no problem enforcing the rules. With a Nazi in our WH, it is once again an issue of “friends & enemies”. Trump, the malignant narcissist, is always convinced that everyone is out to get him. As a bully, he must get his revenge even though people were only providing the House with the facts to the extent that they were personally aware of them. Since the facts were independently corroborated by witnesses, the whistleblower’s statement became irrelevant except to trigger an investigation. These revenge tactics have labeled Trump immature, petty and ill mannered in front of the entire world. So weak. So shameful. And he did it to himself.
Trump is lawless.
very well said, ty dr maddow and mr snyder. we must shake off this apathy which has enveloped us! we are the land of the free, because of the brave! stand up!
A clarion voice we all need to hear and heed in these dangerous times. Thank you Prof. Snyder and Rachel.
the mob is running usa and barr is the boss trump to dumb to be anybody’s boss he and his kids steal from charities and get caught dumb as rocks
That’s such a simple and effective recommendation. America needs its heroes, right now.
Tim Snyder is brilliant. Fantastic as a lecturer, writer and thinker.
I STAND….unless the Anthem is playing… with those that become WHISTLE BLOWERS !
VOTE BLUE AND LETS END THE GOPs efforts to take away all Our benefits and Protect our Laws
We are at a point where the rich defend the POTUS and the rest are just watching what happens.
We The people need to have a courage to stand up. We already saw many government officials resigning “on protest” against Trump, but they just did that without doing anything to protest. We need the real courage to stand up. Trump believes silent protest does not affect his ego at all. Bill Burr complains Trump’s tweets but in fact, what he does is to do what he was instructed by Trump. By letting Trump walk free, the Senate Republicans are 100% responsible for the emerging of this real and pure evil devil, who is now trying to clean his own bad record of impeachment but also trying to undo all of investigation works Mueller has completed… Then he will re-hire those criminals like Roger Stone and Micheal Flynn into his cabinet, to create his own organized crime empire, to replace the US government with, so that he will be the real king of criminal empire nobody would complain or protest. That is what Trump is trying to do now. Already he declared absolutely unlimited power to control justice systems…we may see lots of criminals walking streets, shooting innocent people who would disagree with Trump…one by one…
“It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words”. George Orwell – 1984
I think we should crowd fund each of those people support –
This is how freedom is taken away. A dictator threatening you if you dare question their abuse of power.