Anne Applebaum: Planning for a Techno-Oligarchic Regime

The billionaires rushing to get on board with Trump, and contributing millions for his inauguration, may have missed this key detail: Enhancing the power of a leader—to bend the rules and undermine the rule of law—is often very bad for business. Meanwhile, Team Trump is distracting the media and the public with the firehose of nominations. Plus, election laws v TikTok and Elon, how brutal regimes can quickly die, and the impact of Israel's campaigns on international law during wartime.

Anne Applebaum joins Tim Miller.
Show notes:

• Anne's recent piece on Syria, and potentially other brutal regimes, falling quickly
  
  
• Video of Clarissa Ward finding a Syrian prisoner who didn't know about the fall of Assad
  
  
• Tim's playlist