Tyranny Expert Explains Why Donald Trump's Project 2025 Shift Is 'Basically A Scam'
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It's "part of an authoritarian dynamic," said Timothy Snyder.
Yale history professor Timothy Snyder isn’t buying GOP nominee Donald Trump’s attempts to distance himself from the Project 2025 handbook, following backlash to some of its proposals.
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Snyder, an expert on authoritarianism, agreed.
Trump is “trusting that his people will believe him, no matter what he says,” he explained. “That is part of an authoritarian dynamic where you can lie to your own people and then you can say something completely different the next time and they nod their heads and say, ‘Oh yes, I knew it all along.’ That’s part of what it means to belong to that sort of thing.”
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