Interview Archive: Interviews
Every authoritarian ruler has wanted a “new” Delhi. Modi’s only the latest
“Authoritarians like to leave their mark on the landscape.”
Trump’s coziness with authoritarians is backfiring spectacularly in Syria
“The cost of allying with autocrats like Erdogan and Putin has never been clearer.”
Staring down impeachment, Trump sees himself as a victim of historic proportions
“Trump’s Cult of Victimization”
An Unauthorized Biopic Of Silvio Berlusconi, Already Stranger Than Fiction
“Berlusconi knew how to create continual moments of outrage to capture the news cycle,”
Dean Obedaillah Show, Sirius XM 10-01-2019
“This is more of Trump’s Politics of Apocalypse.”
CNN Tonight with Don Lemon Interview, August 5, 2019
“With a white nationalist in the White House stoking hatred and 400+ million guns in circulation, America is in uncharted terrain.”
Trump used words like ‘invasion’ and ‘killer’ to discuss immigrants at rallies 500 times: USA TODAY analysis
“Trump does nothing by accident. The use of repetition – a propaganda mainstay – points to an intention by Trump to impose a way of thinking about his designated targets.”
Trump says China’s Xi should meet ‘directly and personally’ with the Hong Kong protesters to negotiate a ‘happy’ ending to the clashes – Business Insider
“Trump’s history of public admiration for Xi Jinping as a repressive ruler who may stay in office indefinitely sends a clear signal of approval for anything Xi does to show his strength, including any military action in Hong Kong.”
Trump’s controversial “Salute to America” July Fourth event, explained – Vox
“Trump is turning American military might…,into a way to glorify himself and further an agenda which is seen as authoritarian.”
Trump’s Fourth of July Takeover Was Inevitable – The Atlantic
“Trump has to colonize everything…Any holiday, any civic ritual, becomes a Trump ritual.”
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