Predicting Trump's next moves on elections

Yascha Mounk and Ian Bassin also report on what they got right—and wrong—over the past decade.

Ian Bassin is co-founder and Executive Director of Protect Democracy. He previously served as Associate White House Counsel.

In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Ian Bassin discuss what democracy defenders got right about Trump’s authoritarian tactics, why institutional actors have failed to resist democratic backsliding, and the underlying drivers behind the global rise of illiberalism.

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