Digs needed on Public TV star Rick Steves, travel advisor of 20+ years. Today he is pushing his doc film The Story of Fascism in Europe and clearly promoting an inverted terror aimed at Trump. Question: how has he maintained his stardom in the competitive travel genre? I used to watch him a number of years ago when there was not the slightest flavor of politics at all on his programs. Today he is positively dripping with fear of the rise of left - oops, I mean right wing nazis and fascists in the most reasonable, intellectual voice he can muster.