Thank you to so many of you who joined
and me last night for Authoritarian Tactics: Trump, Putin and the Global Playbook. We discussed the similarities between how Putin has turned the Russian Federation into an authoritarian regime and what Donald Trump is attempting to do here in the United States.The legacy media has utterly failed in describing how Trump’s assault on universities, his installation of loyalists across the federal government, his efforts to build a surveillance state, his moves to incarcerate “homegrown” undesirables, his assault on the courts, and his attempts to shut down the media are the hallmarks of an authoritarian regime. It is as though our media cannot bring itself to say that all of these things are connected to the destruction of our democracy. By the time The New York Times, The Washington Post and CNN connect the dots, Trump will have put them of business and it will be too late.
Make no mistake: everything that Trump is doing is straight out of the authoritarian playbook. It is exactly what Vladimir Putin did 25 years ago when he became the president of Russia — except Trump is moving much more quickly.
Olga and I convened this emergency episode of Pax Americana as a warning. The parallels are all there and we don’t need to look too hard to notice them. I urge you to watch the episode above if you missed it. You can also stream the audio wherever you get your podcasts.
As always, I invite you to join Olga and me for our weekly Pax Americana week show on Thursdays at 11 AM ET.
It is the third Wednesday of the month, so my newsletter will post later today at
. I’ll add it to the Week in Review on Sunday.In the meantime, please join
, , and me for our weekly show Over It! at 12 PM ET today. You can stream it here.
If you are near a tv this morning, I’ll be on MSNBC in the 10 AM hour to talk about how voters are pushing back on all this at Republican town hall meetings.
Stay safe and stay salty,
Julie
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