President Trump’s behavior is being labeled authoritarian after he fired his attorney general, shouted down reporters and stripped one of them of his White House “hard pass” — all in the space of an afternoon. Marco asks political scientist Sheri Berman how our democracy is doing and whether Trump’s rule compares with authoritarian leadership in Russia, China and Turkey.
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