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The Making of an Autocrat: manufacture a crisis
Donald Trump has sounded the alarm, over and over again, that the United States is facing an “invasion” by dangerous gang members. He blames immigrants for the country’s economic problems and claims protesters are destroying US cities.
Trump is not the first would-be autocrat to manufacture a crisis to seize extraordinary powers.
As Natasha Lindstaedt, an expert in authoritarian regimes at the University of Essex, says in episode 3 of The Making of an Autocrat, a strongman “loves a crisis”.
"A crisis is the way that they mobilise their base, the way that they can depict themselves as the…
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