Political scientist Steven Levitsky talks with Der Spiegel reporter Claus Hecking about Donald Trump's authoritarian playbook.
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"Autocrats are most destructive when they enjoy high levels of popular support: Politicians like Putin or Chávez sometimes have or have had 70 or 80 percent support. Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, on the other hand, was able to do much less damage because he lacked this backing. And Trump is not a popular president."
Donald Trump is currently transforming the U.S. into an authoritarian state, argues Harvard Professor Steven Levitsky, author of "How Democracies Die." And he is using an unexpected twist in the authoritarian playbook to do so.
Claus Hecking (DER SPIEGEL)
Aral Balkan
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And how much of that is because of exactly this business model, Der Spiegel?
How much of it, motherfucker?
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@aral Thanks for pointing that out. I've never seen that popup. Isn't it annoying?
(I don't have a subscription to Der Spiegel, but I do access it only through RSS on a very locked down Firefox, and live in Aotearoa New Zealand.)
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Bob LeFridge
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I'm feeling like a broken record this morning, but I never see popups or ads on Spiegel. I'm also in NZ and run a small fleet of ad blockers and anti-trackers within Firefox.
@aral @leighelse