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How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life

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Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism by Anne Applebaum

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Given the right conditions, any society can turn against democracy. Indeed, if history is anything to go by, all of our societies eventually will.

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“It’s actually happening: all sorts of people seen as misfits, dealt with as if they were a disease. And the Germans get away with it, because most people simply can’t believe it would ever happen to them.”
― Anne Perry, A Darker Reality

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“cross state lines with a semiautomatic rifle, walk unmolested by police into a protest, fire into a crowd, kill two people, and go free?”
― Steven Levitsky, Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point

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