For more on this, I'm joined by the friend of the show, Jason Stanley. He's a professor of philosophy and the chair in American studies at the Monk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. He's also the author of the remarkable book, Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future. Uh this is so central, Jason, to some of your work and some of your thinking that storytelling is such a powerful tool utilized by authoritarians. It is often more effective th ...

In every case they prosecute their opponents for staging a coup, when in fact the coup was staged by the forces paying the prosecutorsMichael Shellenberger (@shellenberger):They tried to jail Trump, will jail Bolsonaro, and are now trying to jail Georgescu. In every case they accuse their enemies of what they are doing: staging a coup. That’s apparently the cost of running for office as a populist and nationalist https://t.co/Wph4lPqCY3 ...

A majority of judges on a Brazil Supreme Court panel found Jair Bolsonaro guilty of attempting a coup after his 2022 election defeat, making him the country’s first former president convicted of such a crime. https://t.co/liFTEUn3qY ...

Brazil’s Supreme Court reconvened Wednesday on the precipice of a historic ruling: The first-ever conviction of a former president for attempting a coup in Latin America’s largest nation https://t.co/4zzzpiFuRW ...

Brazil’s Supreme Court will decide if former President Jair Bolsonaro tried to stage a coup and allegedly plotted to kill his opponents https://t.co/HfQ8FoZINe ...

Brazil’s former hard-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, is on trial for allegedly attempting a coup to remain in power. He denies all charges. Could this be a test case for how countries recover from a populist fever? https://t.co/nhoBoUWai9 https://t.co/LRA9jvUUmZ ...

“We are allowed to have Peter Strzok here to begin plotting the coup against the next horrible people.” Yes, they were that open about it.The Researcher (@listen_2learn):In September 2021, Comey leaker Ben Whittes laughed about how Russia collusion criminal Peter Strzok could begin planning another coup against a potential Republican president who they thought would be Ron DeSantis. https://t.co/DuZP4uT6jn ...

Geopolitical Implications - Brazilian President Lula stated the US attempted a coup in Brazil [1] - Lula advocates for de-dollarization in international trade [1]