What Are the Symptoms of a Dictatorship?

独裁政权的症状是什么?

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2024-11-16

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Trump would love to be a dictator. His affinity for strongmen like Victor Orbán and Vladimir Putin is no secret. But will he actually take the country down that road? What does authoritarianism look like in 2024? This week on How We Got Here, Max and Erin examine the president elect’s blustering and ask: will Trump really try to become an autocrat? Or is this just a lot of hot air from someone who doesn’t really understand how to work the levers of power. Cornell political scientist Tom Pepinsky weighs in on what we should be looking out for, and what we can learn from countries like Malaysia, Hungary and Turkey.
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  • So, Erin, there's this clip of Donald Trump from about a year ago that I keep thinking about.

  • Max, I think I know where you're going with this.

  • And I'm so glad we're finally going to do an episode investigating why Trump thinks that magnets don't work underwater.

  • Wait, sorry, magnets?

  • You didn't hear this one.

  • He went like on and on about it at a rally.

  • I.

  • Okay, no, I'm thinking about a different moment.

  • This was Fox News host Sean Hannity trying to handhold Trump into saying that he won't be a dictator.

  • Do you remember this?

  • Under no circumstances you are promising America tonight you would never abuse power as retribution against anybody.

  • Except for day one.

  • Except for, look, he's going crazy.

  • Except for day one.

  • Meaning I want to close the border and I want to drill.

  • That's not retribution.

  • I'm going to be, I'm going to be, you know, he keeps, we love this guy.

  • He says, you're not going to be a dictator, are you?

  • I said, no, no, no.

  • Other than day one, we're closing the border and we're drilling, drilling, drilling after that.