Rachel Maddow Presents: Déjà News - New history podcast series

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Rachel Maddow, host of the #1 hits “Bag Man” and “Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra,” is back at the mic with a new original series, “Rachel Maddow Presents: Déjà News.” In each episode, Rachel and co-host Isaac-Davy Aronson seek a deeper understanding of a story in today's headlines by asking: Has anything like this ever happened before? Would knowing that help us grapple with what’s happening now… and what might happen next? Rachel Maddow Presents: Déjà News (MSNBC)

I have just listened to the first episode. It was great. I never heard of the attempted (and successful) coup in France in 1934, before:

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A violent right-wing mob interrupts lawmakers formalizing the transfer of power to a new leader. But this isn’t Washington, D.C., on January 6, 2021, but rather Paris on February 6, 1934. Rachel Maddow and Isaac-Davy Aronson explore that earlier event, the way it reverberates to this day and how it could help us understand what January 6 will mean for the U.S. Episode 1: Riot at the gates (again) - A violent right-wing mob interrupts lawmakers formalizing the transfer of power to a new leader. (MSNBC, June 12, 2023 - 33 min.)

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