{"id":7586,"date":"2021-01-13T13:17:51","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T13:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=149559"},"modified":"2021-01-13T13:17:51","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T13:17:51","slug":"american-abyss-fascism-historian-tim-snyder-on-trumps-coup-attempt-impeachment-whats-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/13\/american-abyss-fascism-historian-tim-snyder-on-trumps-coup-attempt-impeachment-whats-next\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAmerican Abyss\u201d: Fascism Historian Tim Snyder on Trump&#8217;s Coup Attempt, Impeachment &amp; What&#8217;s Next"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p>As the House votes to impeach President Trump, the <span class=\"caps\">FBI<\/span> warns there could be a repeat of the violent insurrection he encouraged on January 6, with Trump loyalists planning to hold armed protests nationwide ahead of Joe Biden\u2019s inauguration. We speak with Timothy Snyder, a historian of fascism, who says the riot at the U.S. Capitol was \u201ccompletely and utterly predictable\u201d given President Trump\u2019s record of stoking extremism and undermining democratic institutions. \u201cThe American republic is hanging by a thread because the president of the United States has sought to use violence to stay in power and essentially to overthrow our constitutional system,\u201d says Snyder.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/01\/13\/american-abyss-fascism-historian-tim-snyder-on-trumps-coup-attempt-impeachment-whats-next\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the House votes to impeach President Trump, the FBI warns there could be a repeat of the violent insurrection he encouraged on January 6, with Trump loyalists\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7587,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7586\/revisions\/7587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}