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Martin Wolf on democracy’s year of peril

FT News Briefing

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Authoritarian Instincts and Republics

The speaker highlights that Donald Trump showed authoritarian instincts, drawing parallels between the US situation in 2016 and the fall of the Roman Republic in the first century BC. The speaker compares the methods of Caesars like Julius and Octavian, who overturned the Republic while maintaining its institutions.

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