As Americans prepare to vote in midterm elections on November 3, the FT’s chief economics commentator Martin Wolf asks what the result will mean for Donald Trump, the future of US democracy and America’s place in the world.
In the second of a six-part series of interviews with leading historians and political analysts, Martin speaks to Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author Anne Applebaum about the global stakes in November’s elections. They discuss the parallels between Trump’s America and other authoritarian regimes and what the country’s changing role means for Europe and Ukraine.
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