A protestor looks out of a box with the writing 'Fascism' at a demonstration against the AfD party and right-wing extremism in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, Feb. 3, 2024

Zack Beauchamp, senior correspondent at Vox and the author of The Reactionary Spirit: How America's Most Insidious Political Tradition Swept the World  (PublicAffairs, 2024), explores the resistance to democratic ideals that has always accompanied progress toward greater freedom and how that reactionary movement is active here and around the world.