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Tim Phillips

Oct 14, 2026

Misha GlennyMODERATOR
14:27
So what I'm asking you, Tim, is are we here looking at similar trajectories in the United States, the use of constitutional or vague constitutional means as an attempt to grab power on a more lasting basis?
14:45
Do you have another question I could answer? You know, Tim and I have been friends for a long time.
14:55
So when he wrote his previous book called Takeover, the last six months of the Weimar Republic, he would call me, I would call him, I'd say, what are you learning? And how it applies to the United States.
15:05
And this is before Donald Trump got re-elected.
15:08
So I remember reading there was this notion around the Weimar Republic of German exceptionalism.
15:14
We all know of this notion of American exceptionalism.
15:18
And here we are in theory celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and what came as a result of that.

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Misha GlennyMODERATOR
37:01
Explain who Tallarico is.

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