Amy Goodman speaks with the acclaimed Russian-American writer M. Gessen, who says Donald Trump has entered his second term prepared to enact his radical Project 2025 agenda, including a crackdown on LGBTQ rights and dissent.
Gessen, who has spent decades writing about authoritarianism at home and abroad, argues that while he was something of an “accidental president” in his first term, “Trump has been transformed by power” and is now increasingly “imperialist” and “totalitarian.”
As for the struggle of the Democrats against Trump policies and Project 2025, Gessen says:
Trump understands politics as the interplay of power and ideology. His opponents see politics as procedure. The contrast has never been starker … And never has the Democrats' technocratic, legalistic approach been more detrimental to the cause of democracy."
Watch or read Amy's full interview with M. Gessen HERE on DemocracyNow!
