| Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Snyder closes his book with this:
The danger we now face is of a passage from the politics of inevitability to the politics of eternity, from a naive and flawed sort of democratic republic to a confused and cynical sort of fascist oligarchy. The path of least resistance leads directly from inevitability to eternity.
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“Trump is an extinction-level event” for American democracy, Andrew Sullivan
“This is how fascism comes to America,”, Robert Kagan’s
“Americans today are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism in the twentieth century”, Timothy Snyder
“Hitler’s language rejected legitimate opposition: ‘The people’ always meant some people and not others (the president uses the word in this way), encounters were always struggles (the president says winning) and any attempt by free people to understand the world in a different way was defamation of the leader (or, as the president puts it, libel).”