Center For Media At Risk

In this episode, Center for Media at Risk Research Fellow Sebastién Mort and Annenberg doctoral student Jeanna Sybert continue their discussion with Visiting Scholar Ruth Ben-Ghiat about “The Authoritarian Playbook.” From press policies and strategies of repression to personality cults, Ben-Ghiat argues that the best way to understand Donald Trump and his contemporaries is by looking at him in the context of a century of authoritarian rulers from Mussolini onward.