Trump, Putin, Bolsanaro: The Return of The Strongman
Dan Snow's History Hit
History Hit
4.7 • 13.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2020
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Ruth Ben-Ghiat joined me on the podcast to discuss what modern authoritarian leaders have in common and how they can be stopped. We discussed the strongman playbook from Mussolini to Putin, Johnson and Trump.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there everybody, welcome to Dance Know's History Hit. |
| 0:02.7 | What a weak hit is we've got a US presidential election. |
| 0:05.7 | We've got another lockdown in the UK. |
| 0:08.6 | I'll let you enter a curious little anecdote here. |
| 0:11.7 | The lockdown begins at midnight, |
| 0:14.9 | the night of my wife's birthday. |
| 0:16.2 | So we can go out for a little birthday dinner. |
| 0:18.2 | And then the proposed end of the lockdown |
| 0:20.4 | is at midnight the day before my birthday. |
| 0:22.9 | So I can go out for a little dinner that night. |
| 0:25.0 | So everybody around the world is still in lockdown |
| 0:29.0 | and everyone here in the UK that's going back into |
| 0:32.0 | a more strenuous lockdown. |
| 0:33.7 | Good luck and we'll be producing a whole ton of content, |
| 0:38.2 | audio and video if you'd get a teeth into |
| 0:41.3 | in these dark times. |
| 0:43.1 | Dark literally and metaphorically. |
| 0:47.1 | Today speaking of darkness, talking about strong men, |
| 0:49.5 | it's not just Donald Trump. |
| 0:51.2 | We got Putin floating around with his top off. |
| 0:54.5 | We've got Duterte and the Philippines. |
| 0:57.4 | We got Erdogan, we got Bolsonaro, |
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