Ruth Ben-Ghiat
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And so that made him all the more go after Navalny and eventually had him killed.
that's Putin and that's Russia, this is the United States.
But the psychology, the need to have your safe space, which is somewhere you could go that must be secret for you, and yet you're boasting about it, the difference is that Trump boasts about everything.
Putin and others do it in secrecy, a little more secrecy.
Trump is telling us everything about it because he has no filter, very different than Putin, who was an intelligence officer.
Right.
Putin is like super versed in what not to say.
Right.
He measures each word.
He's still like this.
Do you think this will damage Trump, his loose lips?
Yes, because it alerts people to what he's doing.
And sometimes he's soft launching things that are horrible.
Like maybe I should have a third term.
Right.
So it has a propagandistic function, but ultimately the corruption, the denial, saying everything's going great.
The hottest country.
The Nobel Peace Prize when we're at war.
Because autocrats think that the people are stupid.
because they scorn people.