"Are you crying, Anne Applebaum?", the British radio host asked.
It was off-the-mike and early in the morning, London time, on 9 November 2016, in the studio of BBC Radio Four's flagship Today programme and Applebaum, a US journalist and historian, was holding her head in her hands, while listening to a live-feed of Donald Trump's presidential victory speech in Washington.
"Of course, I wasn't [crying], but it must have looked that way," Applebaum said, recalling the moment four y...
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