Garry Kasparov: Donald Trump reminds me of Vladimir Putin
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses delegates at the end of the last day of the Republican National Convention on July 21 in Cleveland, Ohio.
Donald Trump’s dark and frightening speech at the Republican National Convention on Thursday had pundits and historians making comparisons ranging from George Wallace in the 1960s to Benito Mussolini in the 1930s. As suitable as those comparisons may be, the chill that ran down my spine was not because of Trump’s echoes of old newsreel footage. Instead, I saw an Americanized version of the brutally effective propaganda of fear and hatred that Vladimir Putin blankets Russia with today.
