This edition: Super Tuesday and Fascism

Episode Details

Original tape date: March 2, 2016. First aired: March 2, 2016.

Ian Tuttle of National Review and Bob Herbert discuss the race after Super Tuesday. A scholar explains why Donald Trump is not a fascist.

Bob Herbert Host, Bob Herbert's Op-Ed.TV

Robert O. Paxton Author, The Anatomy of Fascism

Ian Tuttle William F. Buckley Fellow in Political Journalism, National Review Institute

About this series
In January, POTUS 2016 officially becomes POTUS 2017 with popular WNYC host Brian Lehrer. The weekly half-hour program keeps watch on the oval office with a roundtable of guests. A regular segment, “Evidence-Based Politics,” looks deeply into one timely issue with a researcher who has published a rigorous study on the subject. The segment is designed to pour cold hard facts on the overheated political rhetoric that can misinform the public and policy-makers.
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