The Vanderbilt Report: Ashley Rubin on Politics vs Scholarship

"One of my big pet peeves is everybody wants to talk about authoritarianism. But really they mean, you know, Trump authoritarianism.

They mean conservative or Republican authoritarianism. They mean government authoritarianism.

And you know, to be fair, government…

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