Both Sane and Insane - My Conversation With Dr. Ruth Ben-Ghiat About Understanding Trump And Other Autocrats
Watch now Both Sane and Insane - My Conversation With Dr. Ruth Ben-Ghiat About Understanding Trump And Other Autocrats Enjoy this lively, informative conversation with one of my most important teachers..... Simon Rosenberg Nov 24 Afternoon all. Sending a long a new interview with one of the heroes in our fight for democracy, historian, bestselling author, and fellow Substacker, Dr. Ruth Ben-Ghiat. I asked Dr. Ben-Ghiat to come talk to us after reading her recent essay, “Both Sane and Insane”: Autocratic Visions Of Governance, Chaos as a Strategy . It helped me better understand what we are seeing everyday, and how to think about Trump and his regime. This passage in particular has stuck with me: Autocrats don’t recognize boundaries between public and private, and they don’t see democratic ideas of conflicts of interest or accountability as legitimate or applicable to them. Only fools are in office to serve the people: rather, the party and government and society are ...