Strongmen

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  4/6/2021
  

  Methods of Power: How do Authoritarians Rule? (Review)

  by David A. Bell

  Is Trumpism a fascist movement or a response to a power vacuum created by decades of neoliberal policies? Historian David A. Bell reviews Ruth Ben-Ghiat's "Strongmen" and argues that the book misses the specific context of Trumpism by making him an archetype of the authoritarian ruler.