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Anne Applebaum Predicted Trump’s ‘Absolute Power’ in Second Term | Reupload

Aug 13, 2025 | Anne Applebaum, staff writer for The Atlantic, has covered dictators for decades.

In an interview from before the 2024 election with Mediaite's Press Club, she told host Aidan McLaughlin that Donald Trump’s language mirrored rhetoric from Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini.

She described a disturbing trend in his authoritarian language -- and how it foreshadowed his consolidation of "absolute power" in a second term as president.