Gessen

Listen to journalist Masha Gessen: Believe the autocrat.

In a recent exchange for the New York Times, Russian expat Masha Gessen and paleoconservative Bret Stephens observed the improbable fact that they were largely in agreement.

At one point, Gessen summarizes it this way:

Gessen would be proven correct in ways far worse than perhaps even they imagined at time….My advice to the news consumer is - imagine the worst.

Throughout the Age of Trump and the democracy crisis, Masha Gessen has repeatedly counseled that we should take his threats seriously.