janhoglund<p>Russia’s “boy” existed in the American mind thanks to a popular American television program, The Apprentice… The role came naturally to him, perhaps because pretending to be such a person was already his day job. On the show, the world was a ruthless oligarchy, where an individual’s future depended upon the capricious whims of a single man.<br>—Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom (2018)<br><a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/theapprentice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>theapprentice</span></a></p>