I'm Hanar Rosen. This is Radio Atlantic.

There's something new unfolding in this election, something we haven't seen in this country on such a grand scale.

Kamala Harris said it bluntly at her acceptance speech of the DNC when she talked

about how tyrants like Kim Jong-un sighed with Donald Trump. They know he is

easy to manipulate with flattery and favors.

They know Trump won't hold autocrats accountable

because he wants to be an autocrat himself.

An autocrat. How do you know if a leader is vying to be an autocrat? It's an abstract title, hard to picture playing out in the U.S.

But as I picked up in a new at hard to picture playing out in the US.

But as I picked up in a new Atlantic podcast,

Autocracy in America,

if you know what you're looking for, you can see it pretty clearly.

People have seen it play out in other countries can take through the list

of autocratic tactics at work right now in the United States.

That was really the organizing idea of the show was to tell people that stuff is already happening now.

This is staff writer Anne Applebaum.

She is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and co-host of Autocracy in America.

Her co-host is Peter Pomerancev, a senior fellow at the S&F Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins

University and a scholar of propaganda and misinformation.

After I started listening to their show,

I realized I was missing some very basic things.

Patterns that were easy to spot

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