BUZZING· 82%35m·2026-05-14·News PoliticsWhat Autocrats Have in Common With Abusers | 'The Opinions' Podcast
The columnist M. Gessen has spent most of their career reporting on and writing about authoritarianism in Russia. They now cover President Trump and the MAGA movement in the United States. In this conversation with Rachel Louise Snyder, a Times Opinion contributing writer and an expert on domestic violence, M. Gessen…
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“There's also a big overlap with cult life. Cult leaders use a lot of the same techniques to control.”
“I also feel like a LOT of US workplaces take from the abuser playbook.”
“If you grew up with alcoholic parents the Trump regime is reopening everybody's old wounds”
“Since the first trump administration, I kept saying he was an abuser, which he is, and many in his administration(s) also have records of being abusers.”
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