The Collaborators and the Dissidents
Following their paths to emergence.
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Episode Notes
Virginia Heffernan talks to Anne Applebaum, staff writer for the Atlantic and author of Twilight of Democracy, about how collaborators and dissidents emerge during a regime like Trump’s—or East Germany’s—how anti-communists like herself moved away from the Republican Party, and Laura Ingraham.
Podcast production by Melissa Kaplan. Engineering help from Richard Stanislaw.
Further Reading:
“Laura Ingraham’s Descent Into Despair” by Anne Applebaum in the Atlantic.
Twilight of Democracy by Anne Applebaum
