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The Age of the Strongman: Understanding Trump, with Anne Applebaum (Part Two)
Intelligence Squared
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1 week ago
The Age of the Strongman: Understanding Trump, with Anne Applebaum (Part Two)
The morning after Donald Trump’s victory over Kamala Harris in the U.S. presidential election, The New York Times front page declared: ‘America Hires a Strongman’. But is Trump really a ‘strongman’ and is it fair to put him in the same category of leaders as Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping?
The Trump administration is already viewed by many commentators as more authoritarian than the first. But will Trump meaningfully crack down on civil liberties? Will he persecute his political opponents? Will he use the state to enrich himself and his inner circle? And will he abandon democratic allies and align America with other authoritarian so-called ‘strongman’ states?
Many critics say the answer to all of those questions is already, demonstrably ‘yes.’ So how far could he go?
We were joined by Pulitzer Prize winning historian Anne Applebaum and host Gideon Rachman for the final instalment of our Age of the Strongman event series.
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