A Historian Spent 30 Years Interviewing Nazis. He Identified 12 Warning Signs of Fascism. All 12 Are Present in Trump's America Right Now. (audio version)
A British historian named Laurence Rees spent three decades sitting across from former Nazis. SS officers. Concentration camp guards. Members of the Hitler Youth. He asked them how it happened, why it happened, and what they were thinking while it happened. Then in January 2025, he published The Nazi Mind, laying out twelve specific warning signs that allowed a cultured, educated, democratic nation to descend into fascism. Twelve conditions. Twelve red flags. Twelve patterns history begs us never to repeat.
I'm attorney Mitch Jackson, and in this episode, I walk you through every single one…
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