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Historian warns: 'A chill spreads' as Trump admin follows familiar authoritarian playbook
MSNBC· 2025-09-30 02:38
there's a kind of chill that spreads. So, as people begin to worry, what if I'm investigated. What if I'm arrested.Uh what if my company gets in trouble. What if my university is singled out. Uh what if my television show is is thrown off the air.Then people begin to self censor. And so you hear less and less clarity about what's going on. You see more and more people fall silent.And it's not as if there's a single date or a moment. there's just a slow slide. Uh and I should say in this America is not excep ...