Is Trump "Fascist"? A debate w/ Jason Stanley, Samuel Moyn, Jodi Dean, Dan Bessner & Eugene Puryear

Is Trump a fascist? Has he unleashed fascism? Was July 6 a coup? A failed coup? Never going to be a coup? Do these labels matter? To answer that question, Katie chats with an amazing round table consisting of: philosopher Jason Stanley; historian and law professor Samuel Moyn; political scientist Jodi Dean; historian Daniel Bessner; and journalist Eugene Puryear.

Jason Stanley () is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University whose latest book is "How Fascism WorksThe Politics of Us and Them." He's a contributor to The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Review, The Guardian, Project Syndicate and The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Jodi Dean () is a political theorist who teaches political, feminist, and media theory in Geneva, New York. She has written or edited thirteen books, including The Communist Horizon, Crowds and Party, ComradeAn Essay on Political Belonging.

Samuel Moyn (), is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence at and Professor of History at Yale University. His latest books are "Christian Human Rights" and "Not EnoughHuman Rights in an Unequal World."

Daniel Bessner is a historian, non-resident fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a Contributing Editor at Jacobin, and the author of "Democracy in Exile: Hans Speier and the Rise of the Defense Intellectual" and is co-editor of "The Decisionist Imagination: Sovereignty, Social Science, and Democracy in the 20th century"

Eugene Puryear () is the host for Break Through News () and The Punchout podcast; a member of the PSL Party For Socialism and Liberation () and the author of "Shackled and ChainedMass Incarceration in Capitalist America."