Pulitzer Prize Historian: You Won't Notice Until It's Too Late!

This was Trump's net worth when he went into office. Two point three billion dollars. And this is his net worth now, just two years later. Six point five billion dollars. So we've never had a president running businesses while in office. And so decisions are being made not based on what's good for Americans, but what's good for his company. For example, why did the Saudi government invest$2 billion in Jared Kushner's funds? It wasn't because they just like Jared Kushner. It was because Kushner is Trump's son in law. And so my biggest concern is the deterioration of American democracy. I mean it's already happening. And most people think democracies end with tanks in the street or somebody shooting up the presidential palace. That actually in the modern world they mostly end because someone who is legitimately elected begins to take apart the system. Trump he has never cared much one way or the other for American democracy. He admires foreign leaders who have no constraints. And I have a goal that is to remind people of why democracy is important and to pay attention to the ways in which it's declining so that we can fight back. So we're just at the beginning of what could be quite a big change. So there's five core tactics that autocratic leaders use to dismantle a democracy. Could you walk me through the five tactics? So first of all

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An apple bum. What is it you spend the last couple of decades of your life? Doing, understanding, studying, and sharing with the world. I started out as somebody who was fascinated by the Soviet Union. I went there when it still existed as a as a student.

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