Ruth Ben-Ghiat

Here, I talk about why we should pay attention to what I describe as an age of “plunder.” That is, the erosion and destruction of the rights and freedoms of the many.

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Apparatchiks have their orders: conjure a Communist threat inside America, associating with it the entire Dem Party, to prepare people to accept whatever authoritarian crackdown the administration may be planning to stop elections from handing them a defeat.

I wrote about Trump's obsession with the 2020 election and what we should pay attention to on Thursday night — The Big Lie, Foreign Interference Edition.

Read my full essay at my Substack, Lucid.Substack.Com

Desperate times mean desperate measures, if you are an unpopular leader afraid of going the way of your friend Viktor Orban. In my latest, I wrote about the ludicrous powerpoint Trump talked about in his speech and why it reinforces the fanaticism of Trump & MAGA.
open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/...

I Reviewed the China-Blaming Jan. 5 2021 Power Point. Will Trump’s Speech Rely On It?

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My latest about a new communist conspiracy from MAGA, just in time for the midterms.

Watch how their language and slogans align and how Communist threats to elections become the drum they beat as we head into the midterms.

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More analysis at Lucid.substack.com. Subscribe for more of my upcoming essays about the various propaganda techniques, like describing enemies as Communists, to pay close attention to.

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A newsletter for big-picture thinking about autocracy and threats to democracy around the world. Click to read Lucid, by Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscriber...

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For more analysis of authoritarianism and how to make sense of and respond to our current moment, head to and subscribe to lucid.substack.com!

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A newsletter for big-picture thinking about autocracy and threats to democracy around the world. Click to read Lucid, by Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscriber...

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Hope you’ll read and subscribe to Lucid below:
open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/...

I Reviewed the China-Blaming Jan. 5 2021 Power Point. Will Trump’s Speech Rely On It?

Welcome back to Lucid, and hello to all new subscribers.