Is President Trump modeling his presidency after autocrats like Presidents Xi and Putin? How can one tell when a country is slipping into an autocracy? What do we know about the public embrace of authoritarianism? This afternoon, I spoke with Ruth Ben-Ghiat. She is a historian and political commentator who frequently writes about fascism, authoritarianism, and propaganda and is the author of the Substack newsletter, Lucid, where she writes about threats to our democracy.
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Stay Tuned,
Preet
