Trump's Memeification of War

About this episode

Anne Applebaum joins Jon Favreau to discuss Trump's approach to war and its implications for American democracy.

Journalist and historian Anne Applebaum joins Offline to discuss America’s slide towards autocracy, as illustrated through Trump's war of choice in Iran. Anne is a staff writer at The Atlantic, an authoritarianism expert, and the host of the "Autocracy in America" podcast. She and Jon discuss how Trump and the White House are using propaganda to minimize the seriousness of this war, what our president has learned from other autocrats, and why Anne is still hopeful that American democracy can still prevail. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here . For a transcript of this episode, please email transcripts@crooked.com and include the name of the podcast.

People in this episode

Host: Jon Favreau

Guest: Anne Applebaum

Topics covered

• autocracy
• Trump
• Iran
• propaganda
• American democracy

Keywords

• Trump
• war
• autocracy
• propaganda
• Iran
• Anne Applebaum
• American democracy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Atlantic, Crooked Media

Books & works: Autocracy in America

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