Autocrats today are polished, appear mainstream and use the media, not overt repression or violence, to gain public support and consolidate power. They govern through a ‘spin dictatorship.’
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Many of Trump’s executive orders mirror plans laid out in Project 2025, a conservative policy plan developed in part by the Heritage Foundation.
An anthropologist who studies polarization asked people why they supported Trump. Here’s what they said about immigration, the economy and his ‘bull in a china shop’ style.
Trump’s efforts may appear to play by the rules, but in reality they ignore key aspects of the rule of law because he does not act in good faith.
New findings by political scientists at Northwestern University and Harvard Kennedy School provide a clearer picture of which demographic groups support Trump.
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Kalb Professor of Global Communications and Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
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Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania
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Professor of Legal Studies and Political Science, UMass Amherst
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Distinguished Professor of Anthropology; Director, Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, Rutgers University - Newark
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Assistant Professor of Politics, Brandeis University
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Professor of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles