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If you have read on fascism and tyranny or you’ve looked at the cable news, you’ve probably seen Professor Timothy Snyder, who has been watching for Trump and tyranny for a few years now.
Snyder’s book on tyranny is one of the unavoidable modern works for people who want to understand tyranny and how to fight it, then what Professor Snyder has published on his account on Saturday deserves attention.
Snyder posted:
Something changes. They still broke things and steal things. And they will continue to try to break and fly. But the magic of propaganda around the oligarchic coup is fading. Nervous Musk, Trump, Vance has all been upgraded to public arguments in recent days. Government failure, stock market crash and dictatorial alliances are not popular. People are starting to realize that there is no truth here beyond the desire for wealth and personal power.
The perception of Professor Snyder is saved by a mountain of surveys that show The country turning against Donald Trump in increasing number. If the survey is not convincing, consider the Large and growing number of almost daily protests Addressed to what Trump and Musk do.
There are also results. When the public gets angry and is expressed, the Trump administration has sold.
Real fascists do not allow their opposition to express themselves. A real authoritarian does not cover. When the pressure is applied to the Trump administration, it breaks. The reason it breaks is that successful authoritarian movements have the majority of the population behind them.
Trump’s support flows like a stone.
None of this means that the country is still out of the woods. As Professor Snyder wrote, Trump and his billionaires will try to try again, which means that it will take constant resistance from the American people to defeat them.
Things will become much easier for pro-democracy Americans if democrats gain control of the room in special elections this year or the mid-term elections next year.
Until then, it will be a Basic battle.
The good news is that Trump has lost, and so far, the Americans are fighting for their democracy.