After a few weeks of being seemingly stunned by the election of Donald Trump to a second term, the PBS News Hour is once again going all out to pump up the fear and the left-wing resistance (if it’s still out there), throwing out scary words like “fascist” to describe the incoming Trump administration, brought to you Wednesday evening by PBS’s most biased reporter Laura Barron-Lopez, and Yale University leftist professor Jason Stanley, who has been calling Trump a fascist without results for six years, and is author of the 2018 book How Fascism Works.
William Brangham: President-elect Donald Trump ran a lot of his campaign promising retribution for his enemies and asking absolute loyalty from his supporters. Now, as he prepares for a second term in office, Laura Barron-Lopez has a look at what that might mean for the future of U.S. democracy.