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Resolute Square

There was also maintained what was called an enemy's list which is rather expensive and continually being updated.

Democrats want Republican instead.

Where I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose any voters, okay?

The women with the least likelihood of getting pregnant are the ones most worried about having a margin.

On January 6 of 2021, you had tens of thousands of people peacefully protesting.

So, it's not right we hear it's not killing on, it's real.

I'm Rick Wilson and this is the enemy's list.

My guest today is Ruth Ben Giat.

She is a friend of the show, an excellent thinker in the whole, terrible, wonderful,

momentarily necessary, I hope, field of the study of authoritarianism.

She wrote the terrific book Strongman, which I so strongly recommend,

and is also the author of the excellent sub-stack newsletter, the lucid newsletter with Ruth Ben Giat.

She is here today to talk with us about our usual subject, which is democracy and authoritarianism.

And yes, unfortunately Ruth as we still are in 2023, it feels like,

while there may be a little bit of good news out there in the world here and there,

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