"Gessen is American, too. They (Gessen is transgender and non-binary and prefers the pronouns "they/them") were born in Russia, grew up in the US, and then lived in Russia again as a journalist, before returning to the US. This allows for a deep comparison between Trump and Vladimir Putin, on whom they have written a well-known book The Man Without a Face. The parallels are evident: Trump admires Putin. Indeed, he would like to be America's Putin."
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Wolf was also reviewing Anne Applebaum's Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism (Doubleday (US)/Allen Lane (UK), 2020)
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