How Trump Could Build an Autocracy featuring David Frum and Scott Stossel 

This video needs to be spread now

Watching this again now makes me really appreciate David Frum's amazing prescience.

I'm sure this is not surprising but I was part of a group that loved Trump. Recently with the pandemic and the blaming of China for Trump's doing nothing for three months.... coupled with his holding a Bible up telling the world he is a white Christian man when the USA is totally fractured... I had to do some anti-Trump posts on FB. My friends, who I love, now want nothing to do with me. I am a pariah because I dissed their hero. The larger political divide is approaching an ideological civil war if we are not already there.

Wait till you see the future on Jan 6th!

Viewing this in September 2020. More and more truth here.

Divide and disruption with nationalism for Putin.

isn't that trump's motto "never take blame, but always take credit"

Presience and spooky that this is 4 years ago. Scary true- except the bit about appointing more competent people and chaos subsiding

Viewing this in January, 2018, it's eerie how prescient David Frum was in this discussion. 😨 His new book, Trumpocracy, found its genesis in this Atlantic article. Highly recommended reading!

David Frum, thanks for your thoughtful and percipient analysis of American politics. "People choose their information because they are divided." Hmmm. This administration is not only incompetent it is downright scary.

Every time I reread this article, it appears to be more and more on-target.

SO glad The Orange Menaces coup failed on 1/6 !!! Like everything else he does 🤣🤣🤣

Thanks for posting this, Atlantic Live.

All Americans should have at least One year studie of European democraties

Sebastian Gorka worked for Orban, now he works in the White House for Trump

Soo important. Pres is looking into allowing military type weapons in police forces in any/all communities in America. Then wants to hire 500 ice officers; build a wall, have private prisons. We all need to intervene in the directions of the pres and congress.

Both highly illuminating and terrifying.... Though, in all honesty, I'm genuinely grateful to be living through this. I _want_ to live in interesting times....and I got my wish. And I'm dead serious about that. Life is now very consequential and meaningful. That's what conflict creates...

What a terrific introduction.

Six months from now the White House will become "more professional"? Ha! The opposite has happened .... and then some.

Mothers Against Drunk Driving should mentor the Parkland teenage gun activists.

I loved the drunk driving comparison question.

OK, I'm a David Frum fan now. So much clarity and understanding. (P.S.:The interviewer hems and haws and stammers incomplete thoughts so much that he funbles more than he speaks!)

just over 1200 views, two comments, 26 thumbs up, really hitting the spot...

Why didn't the media do a more seriously committed job to exposing the dangers of Donald Trump?

Well, he was wrong about the White House becoming more "professional." Actually, it moved in the opposite direction.

I very much like his international perspective: Poland, Hungary, Russia, Turkey, South Africa, what happens now in the US is not new, this country is just the latest victim of the current movement.

How can Trump still be a big player in the US political scene after failing so bad lol. Crazy foolish country.

'In six months, I think the sense of chaos will subside.' He could not have been more wrong.

The actual Dorothy Thompson quote in Aug./41 is 'Kind, good, happy, gentlemanly, secure people never go Nazi". If that insight is valid, it begs the question: Why have so many Americans --- enjoying the highest standard of living in the world --- now become so mean, unhappy and insecure ?

All posted before Covid19. Go to Politics and Prose RU-vid channel. Read it all.

A very scholarly and erudite presentation. For those who have any semblance of a life, please allow me to summarize: THE SKY WAS FALLING! THE SKY WAS FALLING! THE SKY WAS FALLING! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Frum is good, but this moderator is torture to listen to.

Why are people so afraid to re-shore manufacturing back to the United States? Could it be sharing profit with U.S. workers?

the Russians do not care if we do not trust them, as long as we distrust each other. 26:30

This is great m, but do you also want to speak on the genocide that is going on in Gaza?

Maybe the USA needs an Autocrat any more... we seem to not know where we are going and may end up where we are headed.

N. Pelosi, " it is the illusion of democracy that keeps..."

Don't you remember Bill Maher and Dan Rather during the Bush 2 regime?

09/22/19 trump continues to be the gift that keeps on giving. We were asleep; now we're awake. Every day he wakes more people up. If this presidency doesn't do it, nothing will.

Government emails, et al. communication run on "THE BLOCK"

It amazing how the People Republic Of California fits into the category of autocracy!

4:15

Citizen Rights ,National Security issue

Commander in Chief authority challenge

CRAP

Sick of the topic.

interviewer drones on boringly. seek Frum elsewhere.

This guy wasn't a good enough citizen. I am an adult. I worked. I help others. What has this guy done other than write a book? Get over yourself Mr.

I am truly embarrassed by David Frum as a Canadian.

David Frum is a conservative that Liberals and even Progressives respect . A N D Davids mother the famous Barbara Frum of C B C fame was a lberal that conservatives listened to WITH RESPECT

Feb 2022....David is always wrong.

Basically he’s saying the media is entitled to everything

David Frum is SUCH A BORE. God damn, he got a whole 27k views. Jordan Peterson gets MILLIONS!!!!!

This is some of dumbest fantasies I've heard in awhile

I think this is garbage

What a bunch of melodramatic bs.

Indicted 😂

Too bad this isn't being broadcast on Fox News. Trump needs to see that he's been figured out.

I am truly embarrassed by David Frum as a Canadian.

It's confusing hearing this guy speak like this (mostly rationally), since he was among one of the most hawkish voices in support of invading Iraq back in the early 2000's. The very invasion that stirred up a hornets nest in the Middle East, which flowed through to a general state of fear and panic across the world. That same state of fear and confusion is what has helped bring Trump to office, and similar types in other countries.. my own included.

David Frum fan here.

Making such a a great point here!! Loving that!! BTW, here's my latest video about 10 reasons Trump is Unstable and Dangerous, you gonna love it: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-b4O6Yl0ljBI.html 😉

The press screaming Russia Russia Russia 24/7 has people numbed with it. There is so much else to cover. So much that is of greater concern to most of us. Authoritarianism is more worrisome. So many people fail to notice as it steps up daily because they are numb with Russia coverage. More well rounded coverage would be more beneficial.

One of the most important videos one could watch, unfortunately it's mostly "preaching to the choir"

The principles don't appear until 4:15, even then the discussion still hasn't begun at 6:34. I just don't have the patience for educated fools.

Could? He’s done it.

lol what a RINO. 😅 Traitors are the lowest of the lowest.

Laughably ridiculous video.

Idiots ! Lets Go Brandon !

Scotts delivery of questions is slow, long winded and boring. Its like a barrier is errected whenever he speaks

The leaders we are very angry about are in a powerful position because million others allow it. Why, then, are we focus on just one person? Isn’t it the problem one of a vast movement of selfishness?

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I can't understand how choppy the ideas are left dull for me to take.

how disappointing for him after Trump gives the west bank and the moving of the American embassy and Gulan hights to the Jews.

Operative word here: "Could". Doubt it will happen because we still have the 2nd Amendment.

I am truly embarrassed by David Frum as a Canadian.