Trump's proposed appointments look like a decapitation strike: destroying the American government from the top, leaving the body politic to rot, and the rest of us to suffer.
https://snyder.substack.com/p/decapitation-strike-december
https://snyder.substack.com/p/decapitation-strike-december
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If that happens you will never again have freedom.
Just look at how Putin and Erdogan rose and clings to power.
As you point out, tyrants aim at exhausting their populations. Overwhelming citizens with dismay and disbelief advances a tyrant's chances of keeping power until death.
Giving the blatantly unfit power, leads to helplessness in citizens.
Your work is essential to protecting our country. Our household is grateful. I do have a minor quibble. I don't see an attribution for the image used in this piece. I believe the artist is Alberto Burri. It is a fitting accompaniment and needs a citation. Thank you.
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Senator - Please read this. Help protect or institutions, our democracy, and our country. https://snyder.substack.com/p/decapitation-strike-december
Therefore no one in the US fears Putin.
Well done America.
My question is -
WHAT CAN WE DO?
Or your own elders who marched with M.L.King or even Malcolm X.
No, that's not going to help
Need my marching boots,
get in shape asap.
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Listen up
This jerk got it in one
Stay woke
Turns out the mole is the USSR.
I think Francis Fukuyama might have to revise his End of History article. Looks like the Soviets won after all….
A government that always, universally, in any situation, is your enemy.
Because it is not "here to help", but "to check if you still deserve to be alive here".
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Our own sources of optimism, art, joy, humor, music – these are under attack too, precisely because they lift us up.
But we will still RISE.
Because it’s our NATURE.