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Masha Gessen

Now, academics are not always the easiest people to talk to, and the scholarly papers aren’t always the easiest papers to read, but frankly, psychology papers, especially papers and books on terrorism, are very easy to read, and journalists should be reading them.

– Masha Gessen

Masha Gessen

Donald Trump ran for autocrat, he didn’t run for president. The first thing in autocrat does is take over the media, or alienate the media, which is what Trump is doing, he is doing it actively.

– Masha Gessen

Masha Gessen

Fact checking Donald Trump is a really… It is kind of fun but it is ungratifying because nothing checks out.

– Masha Gessen

Masha Gessen

Putin has built a mobilisation society, his sky high popularity numbers, which Donald Trump so envies, are fully dependent on being able to mobilise the population against an enemy and that imagined enemy is the United States.

– Masha Gessen

Masha Gessen

I would much rather engage people in a conversation about deregulation and reversals of women’s rights and civil rights and LGBT rights than conversations about Russian interference.

– Masha Gessen

Masha Gessen

I have no doubt that there are Russian efforts to disturb the fabric of American democracy, but they’re disruption efforts. They’re troublemaking efforts. They’re also not illegal.

– Masha Gessen

Masha Gessen

Any country is either becoming more democratic or less democratic. I think the United States hasn’t tended to its journey toward democracy in a long time.

– Masha Gessen

Masha Gessen

You know, I think that a conversation about what Facebook is – is it a public resource, even though it’s a privately owned corporation? Is it a media company? It is certainly not just a platform, as Facebook has claimed repeatedly. I think that is a really important question.

– Masha Gessen

Masha Gessen

Incomprehensible messaging is a very important part of Russian propaganda.

– Masha Gessen

Masha Gessen

Of course, Oliver Stone is not Donald Trump. But he shares with him a certain way of seeing the world and being in the world – and the luxury of persisting in this way of being, and even making a spectacle of it.

– Masha Gessen

Masha Gessen

To exercise ignorance, racist prejudice, a love of power and total disregard for factual accuracy, one has to inhabit a world where everything can mean anything and nothing is certain.

– Masha Gessen

Masha Gessen

Many Americans have been looking for an explanation for Mr. Trump’s apparent adoration of Mr. Putin. How can a powerful, wealthy American man hold affection for the tyrannical, corrupt leader of a hostile power?

– Masha Gessen

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