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'Twilight of Democracy' author anneapplebaum talks with anthonyLfisher about the rise of authoritarianism in Eastern Europe, the dangerous power of conspiracy theories, and why she signed the 'Harper's letter'

A DC native, she has lived and worked in Poland long enough to witness the fall of communism, an all-too-brief era of liberal democracy, and the subsequent rise of right-wing authoritarianism in the governments of Hungary, as well as in her own adopted country.

But a lot of these guests' politics have since evolved severely — going from pro-democracy to pro-authoritarian. What made these people embrace the strongman? : In every case there's some form of disappointment. Sometimes it's personal disappointment with the transition to democracy, which didn't give the former dissident the career that he wanted. Sometimes it's dislike of democratic political culture, which seems insufficiently muscular, or simply too secular.

Birtherism was the same kind of lie, and it had the same kind of impact in the US. If you believe that Obama is an illegitimate president, then you must also come to believe that everyone — Congress, the White House, the CIA, The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal — are all conspiring to hide the fact that we have an illegitimate president.

 

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