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The Bunker

Daily: MASHA GESSEN on Trump, Putin and the Power Lie

The Bunker

Podmasters

News, Politics, Society & Culture, Government

4.6984 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump annihilates the language of democracy even as he campaigns to destroy its institutions – and in this, he’s just like Putin. In a podcast unlike any we’ve recorded (complete with live thunderstorms), the author of Surviving Autocracy MASHA GESSEN talks to Dorian Lynskey about the lies designed to purely to bully, the perils of the next Trump… and why we might come out of the populist mess better than we went in. Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:14.2

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1:17.0

assumptions about what can and can't happen in democratic politics. Two days after

1:21.5

his election my guest today wrote an article called Autocracy Rules for Survival.

1:25.7

Now they've published an eye-opening book called Surviving Autocracy.

1:29.2

Marsha Gasson is a staff writer of the New Yorker and the author of several books including the man without a face,

1:33.7

a biography of Vladimir Putin, and the future is history how totalitarianism reclaimed Russia,

1:38.9

which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction and is one of the best books I've read in the past decade.

1:43.2

Thank you so much.

1:44.6

Genuine, genuinely is. They grew up in Russia and later worked there for over two decades

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