This afternoon, I spoke to Russian chess grandmaster and outspoken political advocate Garry Kasparov about complacency and corruption in American politics and the inevitability of a figure like Donald Trump. We talked about Attorney General Pam Bondi and the weaponization of the DOJ, the comparison between ICE and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s paramilitary police force, and Trump’s current posture on Ukraine.
Kasparov is the host of the second season of “Autocracy in America,” a podcast from The Atlantic. The first season was hosted by Anne Applebaum, who joined me on the Stay Tuned podcast this week! Anne and I examined today’s broader political landscape and how our politics became divorced from reality. You can listen to that episode in your podcast players, or watch it on Youtube.
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Stay Tuned,
Preet
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