The Age of the Strongman: Understanding Trump, with Anne Applebaum (Part One)
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Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet. I'm producer Mia Serenti. Today's episode is part one of our recent live event with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and political commentator Anne Applebaum. Applebaum joined us at the Royal Geographical Society in London for the final installment of our Age of the Strongman series, Understanding. Trump.
The morning after Donald Trump's victory over Kamala Harris in the US presidential election, the New York Times front page declared, America hires a strongman. But is Trump really a strongman? And is it fair to put him in the same category as leaders such as Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping? Almost a year on from Trump's second election. electoral victory, Applebaum joined Chief Foreign Affairs commentator for the FT, Gideon Rackman, to explore whether Trump truly fits the mould of a strongman leader and how far his authoritarian instincts could go.
Let's join our host, Gideon Rackman, now with more. Well, uh, thanks Connor and thanks to Intelligence Square and to you for arranging this whole series of four on the age of the strongman. I think we uh we started with Putin and then we moved on to Xi Jinping and then Netanyahu. And uh the for the finale, Donald Trump, uh, I don't know whether it's a tribute to Anne or to Trump, but we've had to hire a much bigger hall. Um, so uh it's great to to have you, Anne, joining us to to discuss uh Trump.
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