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The Trump dictatorship debate and the dangerous parallels we can no longer ignore

Donald Trump’s second term is unfolding with eerie echoes of history — are we ignoring the lessons of the past?
The Trump dictatorship debate and the dangerous parallels we can no longer ignore

Hitler fulfilled his plan of becoming dictator — the absolute ruler of Germany. We all know what happened next. Picture: AP Photo/File) 

“The general population doesn’t know what’s happening, and it doesn’t even know that it doesn’t know,” the American political writer Noam Chomsky wrote in his 2011 bestseller How The World Works, which offers a basic understanding of what’s required when it comes to solving the world’s toughest problems.

Chomsky, at 96, is arguably the most important intellectual alive.

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