Timothy Snyder, Author of 'On Tyranny' Rachel Maddow MSNBC; Activism To Save US Democracy

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- American Activism Is Best Hope To Save U.S. Democracy From Trump | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC, Jul 24, 2020

Timothy Snyder, author of "On Tyranny," and Yale historian talks with Rachel Maddow about how Donald Trump's actions echo the behavior of governments that slip away from democracy and into authoritarianism. https://www.timothysnyder.org/

The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience. TIMOTHY SNYDER, ON TYRANNY

- 20 Lessons On Fighting Tyranny From The 20th Century
https://scholars.org/contribution/twenty-lessons-fighting-tyranny-twentieth-century

6. Be wary of paramilitaries. When the men with guns who have always claimed to be against the system start wearing uniforms and marching around with torches and pictures of a Leader, the end is nigh. When the pro-leader paramilitary and the official police and military intermingle, the end has come.