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🗓️ 18 March 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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0:00.0 | From Cafe, welcome to Stay Tune. |
0:03.4 | I'm Prit Bharara. |
0:05.2 | Trump and his administration decided |
0:07.6 | that they could use COVID-19 as a way of triggering |
0:11.7 | and angering people. |
0:13.2 | And, you know, we're going to be recovering from that decision, |
0:16.5 | that terrible self-serving, bad decision for a long time. |
0:25.2 | That's Ann Applebaum. |
0:26.8 | She's a staff writer at The Atlantic, |
0:28.7 | and the author of Twilight of Democracy, |
0:30.9 | the seductive lure of authoritarianism. |
0:33.3 | Applebaum is an expert on autocracies. |
0:35.6 | She's written several award-winning books on Stalinist Russia. |
0:38.8 | Her most recent Twilight of Democracy |
0:41.4 | is a polemic against the anti-democratic parties |
0:44.1 | that have grown in her adopted home Poland |
0:46.4 | in the United Kingdom, |
0:47.6 | and right here in the United States. |
0:49.9 | During the COVID-19 pandemic |
0:51.8 | and the contentious 2020 presidential election, |
0:54.4 | Applebaum has written about the failures of American institutions |
0:57.6 | and what these breakdowns reveal about the state of the nation. |
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