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Fiona Hill's New Memoir Discusses Trump and Why The US Is Becoming More Like Russia

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Fiona Hill on the radio today, short podcast for those interested. Much respect for Fiona Hill.

HILL: Well, I think the obvious correlation is that we ended up having a populist president, someone who claims the support of the people, claims to be able to speak in the name of the people, claims to be the champion of the people without any real personal connection to ordinary people, but who has completely and utterly removed any intermediaries, either a political party or even Congress and the Senate, any representation in between. But he is very similar to many of the same presidential and leadership types that we see in history and also internationally. Vladimir Putin is the same example in Russia since the end of the 1990s. Viktor Orban in Hungary, President Erdogan in Turkey fall into that same category of people who are appealing to a larger people as they define it, and it is we're short circuiting politics and democracy.

INSKEEP: Why do you write that the United States is becoming politically more like Russia, a country you know very well?

HILL: Well, because of this polarization and the short circuiting of democracy - because this is actually what we saw in Russia in the 1990s after the collapse of the Soviet Union. One of the precipitating factors for the collapse of the Soviet Union was loss of faith in the Communist Party. It was kind of meaningless. People didn't believe in it anymore. And those structures collapsed as well, and new parties emerged. And the 1990s was a period of massive infighting. There were multiple coups. Boris Yeltsin, the first Russian president after the collapse of the Soviet Union, shelled the parliament building in October 1993.

I mean, this was a period of political chaos very reminiscent of the - you know, the period that we've gone through here. And out of it, there was a desire for something new and for someone who could just get control of everything again. And Vladimir Putin comes in. He said he's going to fix everything. He's going to make Russia great again. If we think about the way that Vladimir Putin has organized himself, you know, the groups of people around him and what he was really responding to, which was a period of dislocation politically, economically and socially in Russia for a long decade, we've had the same in the United States since the Great Recession of 2008-2009.
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Phys251 said:
America is hanging on by a thread right now. If we lose the White House in 2024...bye-bye, America. ☹️
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The intent is for elections not determining who holds a particular office. They're already demonstrating how that is going
to be performed... no conceding defeat, constant lies, attacks on the process and on election officials. All that remains to be
seen is whether the courts hold and, if they don't, if dems are willing to do whatever it takes to counter the undemocratic.
Sinema and Manchin seem so in love with the filibuster they prefer default on federal payments, no voting protection legislation
or womens reproductive rights legislation if the filibuster has to be sidelined to pass those bills., so maybe its already too late...
 
@Phys251, heard parts of this longer different interview with her today. I was in and out of a few stores so I missed a lot of it on the radio. 42 min. podcast for anyone interested. I know you get it and take it seriously, so do I and it's very disturbing to say the least. Never thought I'd see such turmoil in my country, the downward spiral accelerated with trump.

 
Oh goody! Another "White House Insider" with a book to peddle (while passing it off as "truth").
 
Roadvirus said:
Oh goody! Another "White House Insider" with a book to peddle (while passing it off as "truth").
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Oh goody, another trump worshiper who is anti-American and defending a lying traitor. You wouldn't know the truth if it bit you in the ass. 🤡
 
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