What's the Alternative?
And Why Trump 2.0 Doesn't Want One
Historian Stephen Kotkin spoke with The New Yorker’s David Remnick in early March about Russia and authoritarian leadership. Kotkin said something that has since stayed with me.
He pointed out that authoritarian regimes can fail at everything, but they survive as long as they succeed at one thing: suppressing political alternatives. The existence of viab…
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