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    Watch now   Authoritarianism Expert Tim Snyder Warns America Is Committing “Superpower Suicide” Historian and On Tyranny author Timothy Snyder tells Ben Meiselas he has never seen a major country surrender so much power so quickly. Timothy Snyder , Ben Meiselas , and MeidasTouch Network Oct 4 Historian Timothy Snyder has spent much of his career studying authoritarianism, tyranny and the collapse of democratic institutions. Now, he has a stark phrase for what he believes is happening to the United States under Donald Trump: “superpower suicide.” Snyder, the author of On Tyranny , On Freedom, and Bloodlands , joined MeidasTouch co-founder Ben Meiselas for a wide-ranging conversation about the United States, Russia, China, Ukraine, Canada and the rapidly changing global order. “The term that I came up with when I was trying to capture all this is ‘superpower suicide,’” Snyder told Meiselas. “I can’t see an example of a country, a major country, losing so much power so...