This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, he is STILL the Walter F. LaFeber Professor of Government and Public Policy at Cornell University and a Nonresident Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Program at the Brookings Institution. He came on the podcast about a year ago to preview what we thought a second Trump term might look like, especially as it relates to whether we’re living in an Oligarchy, a Plutocracy, a Kleptocracy or a Kakistocracy and if maybe we should just coin a new term, Trumpocracy which is all four of those rolled into one, plus some other bad stuff, it’s Professor Tom Pepinsky back for his annual assessment of America’s slide into authoritarianism!
You can follow Tom on Bluesky, check out his work on his website, or hop in the time machine and check out our first interview with him after Trump 2.0’s inauguration on YouTube:
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