Ivan Krastev

And this is the interesting story.

This is a person who wants to give the speech on his funeral.

No question.

And this is very important.

He wants to do it for himself.

And this is why, in my view, his understanding of time is very interesting.

I remember when he was talking about what they have discussed with the Chinese president, he said, she promised me that he's not going to attack Taiwan while I'm in power.

I do believe this is important because on the other side, for how long you're going to live, how long you're going to be in power, this is changing dramatically.

I do believe we're totally underestimating the importance, for example, of the famous Putin-Xi talk about we're going to live 250 years.

There is something happening with the idea of time.

And this is why he's so, on one level, exceptional, but on the other level, symptomatic for something that is beyond him.

And this is why trying to focus psychologically on Trump, in my view, we're making a mistake.

I double if you are touching on something important, but slightly overstating it.

Bring it, bring it.

Yeah, behind this, of course, is a major important fear, but it's very much rooted in demography.

It's much more the fertility rate, and here the gay man and the gay woman are much more the symbol of why we do not have kids.

This fear that one level, your country is very powerful, but on the other side that it's in total decline.

And this is very important for, not only for Trump, but for the right-wing imagination.

Because you start to live like the last man, why we're not reproducing what is happening.

Is this not a suicidal society?