On today’s show, host Allen Ruff speaks with longtime friend of the show Matt Rothschild who has been sounding the alarm about Trump since his first term as president. Recently he’s had speaking engagements across Dane County to talk about the dangers of MAGA and Trumpism. 

Rothschild says he can smell a fascist a mile away, and he’s frustrated by the willful minimization and normalization of Trump and MAGA. When mainstream media outlets say that Trump doesn’t have a worldview, Rothschild offers a correction: Trump has a worldview, and it’s a racist worldview. He’s started using the word “fascist” to describe Trump and his movement because Trump has a mass base, demonizes immigrants with his slogan “mass deportation now,” and promotes ultra nationalism. 

They also talk about Trump’s attacks on the pillars of civil society (like the judiciary, press, and universities), the funding of ICE, the masculinist appeal of Trumpism, and the need for continued action like the No Kings protests.

Matt Rothschild is the former executive director of the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign and was previously the senior editor of the Progressive Magazine.

Featured image: photo of Matt Rothschild and Allen Ruff courtesy of Sara Gabler/WORT.

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