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# ![@ruthbenghiat Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::985749294.png) @ruthbenghiat Ruth Ben-Ghiat

Ruth Ben-Ghiat posts on X about bessent, ukraine, gop, russia the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and 2232 posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::985749294/influence)
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**Social category influence**
[countries](/list/countries)  #5809 [finance](/list/finance) 

**Social topic influence**
[bessent](/topic/bessent) #79, [ukraine](/topic/ukraine) #829, [gop](/topic/gop), [russia](/topic/russia), [china](/topic/china), [mike johnson](/topic/mike-johnson), [president donald](/topic/president-donald), [greenland](/topic/greenland), [cult](/topic/cult), [hegseth](/topic/hegseth)
### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::985749294/posts)
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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"When is the US business and financial class going to speak up about this Elites make and break dictatorships- your turn to step up for the country that has given you so much"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ruthbenghiat/status/1978643085354545393) [@ruthbenghiat](/creator/x/ruthbenghiat) 2025-10-16T02:04Z 234.6K followers, 171.9K engagements


""something about female leadership".this is why #Strongmen has a chapter on machismo as a tool of autocratic rule"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ruthbenghiat/status/1978823708220240322) [@ruthbenghiat](/creator/x/ruthbenghiat) 2025-10-16T14:01Z 234.6K followers, 19.7K engagements


"This Bondi performance is designed to send an authoritarian message of total scorn for democracy: Congress as a place where the opposition can grill government officials is an outdated and offensive notion. Doesn't happen in Russia or China why should they have to tolerate it anymore"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ruthbenghiat/status/1975677843330727940) [@ruthbenghiat](/creator/x/ruthbenghiat) 2025-10-07T21:41Z 234.5K followers, 579.2K engagements


"Authoritarian leader cult promotion out of control. Read #Strongmen for the dangers of further inflating the ego of already lawless and unstable individuals"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ruthbenghiat/status/1978132583390077177) [@ruthbenghiat](/creator/x/ruthbenghiat) 2025-10-14T16:15Z 234.5K followers, 22.2K engagements


"As I predicted in Lucid in June aim is a "domestic forever war.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/ruthbenghiat/status/1978133218202202218) [@ruthbenghiat](/creator/x/ruthbenghiat) 2025-10-14T16:18Z 234.5K followers, 40.6K engagements


"Common in autocraciws"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ruthbenghiat/status/1978146515664199700) [@ruthbenghiat](/creator/x/ruthbenghiat) 2025-10-14T17:10Z 234.5K followers, 9909 engagements


"Be smart people: the govt does not care about animals. $XX million allows them to establish a footprint--"economic development" is also mentioned- in Greenland that can be a prep for military action:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ruthbenghiat/status/1976385412978651396) [@ruthbenghiat](/creator/x/ruthbenghiat) 2025-10-09T20:32Z 234.6K followers, 18.8K engagements


"Authoritarian leader cult maintenance in action: you retain status by flattering the leader. Double points for doing it in public. Read #Strongmen for details"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ruthbenghiat/status/1976387277061251072) [@ruthbenghiat](/creator/x/ruthbenghiat) 2025-10-09T20:40Z 234.5K followers, 79.5K engagements


"She may be repulsed by him but she is a neo-fascist who believes in Great Replacement theory and is trying to silence LBGTQ+ speech and rights in Italy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ruthbenghiat/status/1978133975483769126) [@ruthbenghiat](/creator/x/ruthbenghiat) 2025-10-14T16:21Z 234.6K followers, 37.9K engagements


"My @WIRED Tech Support video on dictators:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ruthbenghiat/status/1903112913386098966) [@ruthbenghiat](/creator/x/ruthbenghiat) 2025-03-21T15:54Z 234.6K followers, 172K engagements


"Scott Bessent worked for George Soros for decades and Cruz voted to confirm him as Treasury Secretary"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ruthbenghiat/status/1978783821886624086) [@ruthbenghiat](/creator/x/ruthbenghiat) 2025-10-16T11:23Z 234.6K followers, 37.2K engagements


"Agree- overreach. But that's what fanatics do"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ruthbenghiat/status/1979005349131616490) [@ruthbenghiat](/creator/x/ruthbenghiat) 2025-10-17T02:03Z 234.6K followers, 42.1K engagements


"Check another box on the Fascist playbook list of actions. Read #Strongmen on Mussolini's Battle for Births"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ruthbenghiat/status/1979008162100371667) [@ruthbenghiat](/creator/x/ruthbenghiat) 2025-10-17T02:14Z 234.6K followers, 34.3K engagements


"Asking permission from Putin regarding what to do with your own weapons is very low energy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ruthbenghiat/status/1979008560362123514) [@ruthbenghiat](/creator/x/ruthbenghiat) 2025-10-17T02:16Z 234.6K followers, 314.2K engagements


"I said something very similar about Putin in #Strongmen first published in 2020"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ruthbenghiat/status/1979265833390968951) [@ruthbenghiat](/creator/x/ruthbenghiat) 2025-10-17T19:18Z 234.6K followers, 17.4K engagements


"Ritual humiliation continues"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ruthbenghiat/status/1979300444313915663) [@ruthbenghiat](/creator/x/ruthbenghiat) 2025-10-17T21:36Z 234.6K followers, 115.9K engagements


"An accurate representation of how this kind of leader really feels about those he governs. Autocrats starve kill jail impoverish and use and discard people because they feel scorn for humanity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ruthbenghiat/status/1979751641067954674) [@ruthbenghiat](/creator/x/ruthbenghiat) 2025-10-19T03:29Z 234.6K followers, 148.5K engagements