by Ruth Ben-Ghiat | May 16, 2024 | Forecasts
The New Republic, May 16, 2024 “Does fascism intend to restore state authority or subvert it? Is it order or disorder? Can you be conservatives and subversives at the same time?” Six months before the March on Rome in October 1922, when Benito Mussolini was the head... by Ruth Ben-Ghiat | Jul 7, 2021 | Forecasts
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by Ruth Ben-Ghiat | Jul 25, 2019 | Donald Trump And the GOP, Forecasts, Writing
GQ, July 29, 2019 To many, it felt like a threshold had been passed on Wednesday night at Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign rally in Greenville, North Carolina. When the president brought up Minnesota Democratic representative Ilhan Omar, the crowd chanted, “Send Her Back!...
by Ruth Ben-Ghiat | Jul 20, 2017 | Forecasts
CNN.com, July 20, 2017 Just before Donald Trump took office, I argued that our new President would likely follow the “authoritarian playbook,” an approach toward governance that privileges executive power and makes the leader’s personal goals and...
by Ruth Ben-Ghiat | May 2, 2017 | Forecasts
CNN.com, May 1, 2017 Sometimes political change happens suddenly. You wake up, and a military junta has taken over your country, or some other kind of revolution has happened. But other times, the climate shifts little by little. A few big gestures of aggression, and...
by Ruth Ben-Ghiat | Feb 1, 2017 | Forecasts, Global Authoritarianism
CNN.com, February 1, 2017 We’re not even two weeks into the Trump presidency. Has your head exploded yet? If so, you’re right where Donald Trump and our shadow ruler, Steve Bannon, want you to be. The onslaught of executive orders and threatening talk,...
