Hey, it's NPR's book at the day. I'm Andrew Limbaugh. It's been one year since President

Biden was sworn into office and just over a year since the interaction at the Capitol,

which got us thinking about some of the conversations from the run-up to the election about

the longevity of democracy. And Applebaum's book, Twilight of Democracy, election about the longevity of democracy.

And Applebaum's book, Twilight of Democracy, looks at the patterns of how people across the world come to support anti-democratic regimes.

She starts with Poland, but Applebaum tells NPR Steve Inskeep that there are plenty of other

places we can see this pattern playing out.

Hungary, the Philippines, and of course, even the U.S.

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The writer Anne Applebaum has been thinking about the ways the world has changed over the last 20 years.

She's also reflecting on how some people have changed.

In 1999, we had a Millennium Party, in Year's Eve Party.

And many years later, I started to reflect on that party and on the people who'd been there.

This was in Poland. Applebaum splits her time between the U.S. and there.

Poland was a democracy recently freed from Soviet domination.

She thought her friends shared democratic values.

Today, she says she would cross the street to avoid some of them,

because they now support Poland's ruling party,

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