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American historian and expert on authoritarianism Ruth Ben-Ghiat said Donald Trump’s MAGA movement had won by getting the former president’s immunity hearing before the Supreme Court — no matter how the justices rule. Taking to social media, she wrote, “Whatever the Court does, having this case heard and the idea of having immunity for a military coup taken seriously by being debated is a big victory in the information war that MAGA and allies wage alongside legal battles. Authoritarians specialize in normalizing extreme.” She was responding after the justices questioned Trump’s lawyer, includ…

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