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Pulitzer-winning author Anne Applebaum: ‘Often, for autocrats, the second time in power is worse’
A couple of years ago, in the Atlantic magazine, journalist Anne Applebaum wrote an era-defining cover story called “The Bad Guys Are Winning”. Her argument was not only that democratic institutions were in decline across the world, but that there was a …