Trump Kicks Down the Guardrails

Nov 19, 2024 | I’ve been watching since the election to see what timeline we’re in. And Donald Trump’s first wave of selections for appointees were pretty straightforward. But then came the turn: Pete Hegseth, a former “Fox & Friends” host, to helm the Pentagon; Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence; and the real gut-punch, the former representative Matt Gaetz for attorney general.

In the parts of government that can be weaponized most dangerously — the military, the intelligence services, the Department of Justice — Trump is putting true lackeys and loyalists in charge. I fear we’ve entered the bad timeline.

'He's Talking Like Hitler': Anne Applebaum Warns Trump Wants 'Absolute Power' in Second Term

Oct 25, 2024 | On this episode of Press Club, Mediaite’s Aidan McLaughlin sits down with author and staff writer for The Atlantic Anne Applebaum to discuss the rise in authoritarianism across the globe, Donald Trump’s rhetoric, allegations he privately praised Hitler, and what a second Trump term would look like.

Regimes Around the World Are Starting to TEAM UP (w/ Anne Applebaum) | Shield of the Republic

Oct 6, 2024 | Eric and Eliot welcome back Anne Applebaum, Pultizer and Duff Cooper Prize Winning author of Gulag and Red Famine and currently staff writer with The Atlantic and senior fellow at the Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. They discuss Anne's new book Autocracy Inc: The Dictators who Want to Run the World. They examine the threat that autocratic regimes represent to their own citizens at home and to liberal democracy abroad, the West's slowness to recognize the threat that the authoritarians represent, the excessive optimism that (after the end of the Cold War and with the advent of globalization) liberal democratic ideals would triumph without recognizing the danger that authoritarian, illiberal ideas might flow into democracies, whether or not the authoritarians think they are winning and how they measure success, Russia's role in prompting much of the authoritarian offensive and the role of western institutions in facilitating the emergence of Russia as a personalist, authoritarian mafia state, the weaknesses of the authoritarians and how the western democracies might go on the offensive against the political warfare being waged daily by the authoritarians against the democracies, and the effort to obliterate truth and promote hopelessness and cynicism in citizens in democracies and setting them against one another.

Anne Applebaum: Autocracy Is “Infecting U.S. Politics” | Amanpour & Company

Aug 5, 2024 | In a momentous deal struck between Moscow and several Western nations, the biggest prisoner swap since the Cold War was concluded last week. Some 24 detainees were returned to their home soil, including American Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich. Many of those released by Russia were opposition figures imprisoned for criticizing the Kremlin. In her new book, "Autocracy Inc.," journalist Anne Applebaum argues that many of today's dictators collaborate to help keep one another in power. She joins the show to discuss this phenomenon. Originally aired on August 5, 2024

Anne Applebaum Explains Why Putin Is Rooting for Trump & Democracy's Decline | The Warning Podcast

Jan 13, 2024 | Journalist and historian Anne Applebaum joins Steve Schmidt to discuss the rise of authoritarianism and democratic decline, propaganda, myths, and the manipulation of truth in politics. She also explains why Putin is so interested in Donald Trump winning the 2024 presidential election.

The Instability of American Politics Can't Be Ignored (with Anne Applebaum) | The Bulwark Podcast

Dec 19, 2023 | Anne Applebaum discusses a ray of hope in Europe with the defeat of Poland's authoritarian government, while also contemplating the consequences for NATO and America's place in the world if Trump were to be reelected. Mona Charen sits in for Charlie Sykes.

Anne Applebaum: Orbán Evidence of What a Determined, Anti-democratic Figure Can Do

Dec 19, 2023 | The Atlantic's Anne Applebaum discusses Hungary's PM Viktor Orbán blocking the EU's plan for further aid to Ukraine.

Orbán should be kicked out of the EU. Hungarians belong in the EU, but not under Orbán’s leadership. Orbán is one of Putin’s stooges. – © Mark Alexander

Anne Applebaum: Second Trump Term Would Be a Global Catastrophe | Bulwark Podcast Clip

Dec 19, 2023 | Mona Charen and Anne Applebaum discuss the unique damage Donald Trump could inflict upon the world if he were elected to a second term in the White House.

Hamas Terrorism Echoes Barbaric Playbook from Putin to ISIS, Warns Historian

Oct 11, 2023 | “Hamas terrorists paid no attention to any modern laws of war, or any norms of any kind” in their attacks on Israel, says historian Anne Applebaum, a barbarism that reflects a wider attack on the institutions built to defend human rights after World War II. The Pulitzer winner discusses her essay and the war with MSNBC’s Ari Melber.

Anne Applebaum: Autocracies Don’t Believe in Rules or Norms | Amanpour and Company

Apr 1, 2022 • Anne Applebaum is a staff writer for The Atlantic and a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian. Her latest article, "There Is No Liberal World Order," argues that unless democracies defend themselves together, the forces of autocracy will destroy them. She joins Michel Martin to discuss this existential struggle. Originally aired on April 1, 2022