Timothy Snyder Spent Years Studying Fascists. He Thinks Trump Is One.

Timothy Snyder Spent Years Studying Fascists. He Thinks Trump Is One.

TORONTO—“Is Donald Trump a fascist?” I asked the historian Timothy Snyder.We were at a lovely restaurant on the campus of the University of Toronto, where Snyder had taken up residence after leaving Yale—and America—last August. I was in the middle of the grilled calamari. The professor—gray-haired, in a grayish-blue windbreaker and a checkered, button-down shirt—was poking at his salad.He looked up after a moment, alternating between staring in…

Three Fascism Experts on Why They’re Leaving the US

At the end of March, I posted some news about three prominent scholars of fascism and authoritarianism who were leaving the United States to live and work in Canada. In this video for the NY Times, We Study Fascism, and We’re Leaving the U.S., Marci Shore, Timothy Snyder, and Jason Stanley explain their reasons for going. Here’s some of what they had to say: I’m leaving to the University of Toronto because I want to do my work without the fear t…

Trump's 122 Days: A Descent Into Fascism - Dallas Weekly

In 122 days, the current President Donald Trump has literally followed the handbook for Project 2025. This infamous 900-page handbook that conservatives, and Trump himself, claimed was nothing but a fragment of fear-mongering lore meant to turn the tide of the 2024 Presidential election. The irony now comes in the active use of the text as a blueprint for the dawn of a fascist, authoritarian regime in America. A nation once proud of its pristine…