The Echoes of Authoritarianism

The Washington roundtable is joined by David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, to discuss how Donald Trump, a convicted felon and sexual abuser, won both the Electoral College and the popular vote—a first for a Republican President since 2004. Democrats lost almost every swing state, even as abortion-rights ballot measures found favor in some conservative states. On this crossover episode with The New Yorker Radio Hour, they discuss Kamala Harris’s campaign, Trump’s overtly authoritarian rhetoric, and the American electorate’s rightward trajectory. 

This week’s reading:

• “Donald Trump’s Revenge,” by Susan B. Glasser
• “2016 and 2024,” by Jelani Cobb
• “How Donald Trump, the Leader of White Grievance, Gained Among Hispanic Voters,” by Kelefa Sanneh
• “The Reckoning of the Democratic Party,” by Jay Caspian Kang
• “How America Embraced Gender War,” by Jia Tolentino
• “Donald Trump’s Second Term Is Joe Biden’s Real Legacy,” by Isaac Chotiner

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