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The State of Disunion

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The Rise of Autocrats in the United States

When Donald Trump was running for president, I started taking a look at the world from a very different perspective. Most of the time, my outward view as an intelligence collector was always global. And I saw a rise of an axis of autocracies of people who were almost a global collective where democracy is a failed experiment that should be replaced by totalitarianism and strongmen. Malcolm: Do you agree that there is something that is drawing people to autocrats now and in the past that builds that charisma around the autocrat?

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