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Friday briefing: Will Trump 2.0 turn America into an autocracy?

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Anne Applebaum's latest book, Autocracy Inc , explores the nuanced landscape of democratic decline as we enter another Trump era.

The danger is not that America becomes a totalitarian state, the danger is that Trump pushes an already existing problem of democracy decline and growing autocratic trends and practices and makes them worse.

People often don’t notice the initial signs of authoritarianism or democratic decline as it’s happening.

I lived in Poland during the beginning of the rule of Law and Justice.

It's much harder now to create a civil movement organised around a set of ideals than it used to be.

Autocratic world has learned how to use the internet to create smear campaigns.