>> masha getsen, welcome. >> thank you.. >> totalitarianism, joseph stalin, they seem to be having something of a rebirth these days. i mean, today senator jeff flake takes to the senate floor to excoriate presint trump about his attack on the press, likening the enemy of the people accusation to what stalin did. your book is all about totalitarianism, and these are big word, though. these are big accusations, are they really accurate? it's a fair question, and i think the important thing to understand now and it's never been more relevant is that this is not something that was a one off in the history of humanity and we're not ensured from having a repeat performance and we'll never know how close we came to the abyss, but we are certainly living through a crisis and i think that senator flake was absolutely right to point out the very clear way in which trump has borrowed the phrase the enemy of the people from joseph stallen, and it's not an accident that trump did that. it does tap into a kind of politics. >> do you thi