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Travel guru Rick Steves has a new focus: Saving America

Since the first Trump administration, the TV host has called attention to the growing threat of fascism in his home country

Open this photo in gallery: Rick Steves is sounding a warning bell about President Donald Trump, saying in a recent Facebook post that American democracy is in an ‘existential struggle.’HAIYUN JIANG/The New York Times News Service Recently, he posted a long note on his Facebook page in which he encouraged his compatriots to attend “No Kings” rallies set to take place across the U.S. this weekend, saying the country is effectively under attack by a man who wants to follow in the footsteps of totalitarian dictators of the past. What has rattled him the most is the speed at which the U.S. President has undermined the American Constitution, gutted long-standing institutions, installed cronies and sycophants in important positions for which they are grossly unqualified and turned the White House into a corrupt kleptocracy.

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