President Donald Trump may be following Vladimir Putin’s autocratic playbook closer than we all realize—and the Russian interference was just the tip of the iceberg.
In this bonus members-only episode of The New Abnormal, The New Yorker staff writer and Surviving Autocracy author Masha Gessen joins co-host Molly Jong-Fast to talk about this phenomenon.
They discuss how leaders like Trump and Putin put systems in place to hold power, and if you’re wondering how a man like Trump could do something so seemingly elaborate, it makes sense.