Born in the Soviet Union, Gessen's family emigrated to the US in 1981. As an adult, Gessen returned to Russia in the early 1990s, where they made their name as a science journalist and a groundbreaking activist for LGBTQ rights.
The differences are perhaps the most unexpected and striking. Putin's consolidation of power has been more of an autocratic creep than Trump's, I think partly because Trump has a less systematic way of thinking. He emotionally assumed that once he was elected president, he had the right to be an autocrat. In "The Future is History," I wrote a lot about the difference between authoritarianism and totalitarianism.
And of course we've seen both the display and the consequences of that with COVID. That's one important reason why I think his incompetence is not a mitigating factor, it's very much the nature of the beast. Some of what they're saying is true. These agencies which were created in their current form after 9/11 and are doing exactly what they were designed to do. That's where we get into something that I discussed in the book, which is that I think it's wrong to view Trump as an anomaly. He is unlike any president we've ever had, but the groundwork for Trump, the possibility of Trump, was created long before he became president.
President Donald Trump addresses the nation about the government's coronavirus pandemic response from the Oval Office on March 11, 2020.: As you wrote in the book, a lot of big media people pointed to that moment in 2017 when Trump bombed Syria and said "he became presidential" on that day. Do you think that's a dangerous normalization? : Look, normalization is inevitable. Partly because it's accurate, this has become our normal.
There's been a concerted effort on the part of the Justice Department to reverse the gains of the LGBT rights movement starting, I believe, on the day after Jeff Sessions became attorney general. And of course, his war on immigrants. It's all of a piece, it's all about the narrowing of American identity and the disenfranchisement of people who have progressively been enfranchised in the American project.
mashagessen anthonyLfisher Donald Trump was only elected due the the fact Obama / Biden administration was so incompetent, and dishonest
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