What is the appeal of Trump, really? It's nostalgic: "Make America great again." Like European nationalists, he has a vision of a "real" America, one…

- Anne Applebaum

Globalization has genuinely drained power away from national politicians and people feel it. People in our fast digital age are also frustrated with …

- Anne Applebaum

The surge in right-wing populism and the phenomenon of Trump are related. You can think of them together as the same problem.

- Anne Applebaum

I believe democracy can survive. But it's certainly true that the euphoria of the 1990s - an era when democracy was spreading and more and more peopl…

- Anne Applebaum

Donald Trump has never tried to reach out to all the American people, he never uses the language of unity, he doesn't try to charm or persuade. He ju…

- Anne Applebaum

The evolution of a bourgeoisie is a healthy phenomenon when it grows and prospers thanks to bourgeois values: hard work, honesty, personal responsibi…

- Anne Applebaum

The world has always been a dangerous place. Now it is dangerous in a different way, because the world order that we've known since the end of the Co…

- Anne Applebaum

To describe Russian politics as "managed democracy" - and that's sometimes hard for outsiders to understand, because a lot of the forms of democracy …

- Anne Applebaum

Though the poorest Americans voted for Hillary Clinton, many relatively wealthy people voted for Trump and generally it's a mistake to think that eco…

- Anne Applebaum