Name: Susan Glasser: Trump Has The Instincts Of A Natural Authoritarian
Uploaded: 2020-03-18T19:21:08.000Z
Duration: 7 min 48 s
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MY NEXT GUEST TONIGHT IS A VETERAN REPORTER WHO HAS WORKED

AS EDITOR IN CHIEF OF "FOREIGN POLICY," FOUNDED "POLITICO

MAGAZINE," AND SERVED AS THE MOSCOW BUREAU CHIEF FOR "THE

SHE NOW HAS A WEEKLY COLUMN AT "THE NEW YORKER."

( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ) >> Stephen: THANKS FOR BEING

>> Stephen: I PERSONALLY REQUESTED TO HAVE YOU ON BECAUSE

I HAVE READ JUST ABOUT EVERY COLUMN YOU HAVE WRITTEN IN THE

THEY'RE ALL CALLED "LETTER FROM WASHINGTON," RIGHT?

>> I'M SORRY, I KNOW IT'S A LOT TO TAKE IN.

>> Stephen: WHAT I REALLY LIKE ABOUT THEM IS I DON'T THINK

THERE IS ANYBODY OUT THERE WHO, "A", HAS THE BREADTH OF

JOURNALISTIC EXPERIENCE, WHO HAS TH KNOWLEDGE OF WHAT HAPPENS

UNDERNEATH A BURGEONING AUTOCRATIC REGIME, BECAUSE YOU

WERE ONE OF THE MOSCOW BUREAU CHIEFS FOR "THE WASHINGTON POST"

WHEN PUTIN WAS RISING TO POWER IN THE EARLY 2000s, AND WHO

UNDERSTANDS THE NORMS WE'RE LOSING IN OUR GOVERNMENT THAN

I'M NOT GOING TO SAY IT'S A CHEERFUL COLUMN, YOU KNOW.

BUT YOU SAID YOU NEEDED A TERM FOR THE TRUMP EFFECT, THE THING

WE'RE ALL FEELING BUT HAVE TROUBLE NAMING.

AND YOU ASKED A FRIEND TO HELP YOU-- WHO HELPED YOU COME UP

>> OKAY, SO I HAVE THIS WONDERFUL FRIEND, CASANZA, WHO

IS GERMAN, AND YOU KNOW HOW PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS JOKING THERE

I SAID, "IS THERE A LONG GERMAN WORD FOR THIS TRUMP SOUL

SICKNESS?" AND SHE SAID, "NO, BUT I'LL MAKE

(  LAUGHTER  ) >> THE SECOND PART IS GOOD.

TRUMP, YOU GOT THAT, REGNORRAN IS GOVERNMENT.

SCHLAMASSLE IS WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE, CRAZINESS.

IT'S LIKE TRUMP, CRAZINESS, SOUL SICKNESS.

>> Stephen: I GET A CONSTANT FEELING IN THE SORT OF GAS

LIGHTING OF AMERICA THAT THE PRESIDENT IS TAKING PLACE AND

THE PEOPLE AIDING AND ABETTING HIM, LIKE SOME SORT OF SPELL IS

TRYING TO BE CAST ON US, LIKE SOME SORT OF WEIRD-- SOMEWHAT

ABUSIVE SPELLS BEING CAST ON US SO WE DON'T SEE REALITY ANYMORE.

WHEN YOU WERE SEEING THE RISE OF PUTIN FROM 2000-TO 2004, WAS

>> YOU WOULDN'T THINK THERE WOULD BE AN OVERLAPPING

EXPERTISE BETWEEN BEING IN RUSSIA AND BEING IN WASHINGTON,

AND THROW IN A CLINTON IMPEACHMENT-- THESE THINGS

AREN'T SUPPOSED TO GO TOGETHER IN THE SAME SENTENCE.

VLADIMIR PUTIN, THE FIRST FOUR YEARS, HE DID WHAT ALL ASPIRING

AUTHORITARIANS DO, WHAT ERDOGAN DID IN TURKEY, CONSOLIDATE

THEY TOOK OVER THE INDEPENDENT TELEVISION.

YOU GO AFTER THE PARLIAMENT, AND YOU MAKE SURE THAT IT'S A POCKET

YOU GO AFTER THIS-- AND, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE SOME UNKANE

TRUMP SEEMS TO HAVE THE INSTINCTING OF A NATURAL-MINDED

AWE AUTHORITARIAN, EVEN THOUGH WE HAVE A VERY DIFFERENT HISTORY

AND INSTITUTIONS AND CULTURES, THANKS GOODNESS YOU.

>> Stephen:  HAVE BEEN WRITING ABOUT THE NEW PHASE OF THE

MY SUSPICION BEFORE IT HAPPENED, "IF HE ISN'T ACQUITTED, THE

I DON'T SEE THAT THE GUARDRAILS HAVE EVER BEEN ON.

>> AND THOUGHT HE'S GOING TO CHALLENGE ME ON THIS.

AND WE ARE ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW, THE FROG BEING SLOWLY BOILED.

BECAUSE I THINK WE ARE SLOWLY GETTING USED TO TRUMP DOING

THINGS NOW THAT HE NEVER WOULD HAVE TRIED TO DO THREE YEARS AGO

WHEN HE FIRST CAME INTO OFFICE TWO, YEARS AGO.

SINCE HE'S BEEN ACQUITTED, HE'S ATTACKED SUPREME COURT JUSTICES,

GONE AFTER NOT ONLY A FEDERAL JUDGE IN THE ROGER STONE CASE

BUT THE FOUR W FORWOMAN OF THE J THE PROSECUTORS WHO RECOMMENDED

HE HAS NOT ONLY FIRED THE ACTING DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL

INTELLIGENCE BECAUSE A BRIEFING ABOUT RUSSIA WAS GIVEN TO

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