Status Updates From On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons ...

“We learned to say that there was “no alternative” to the basic order of things, a sensibility that the Lithuanian political theorist Leonidas Donskis called “liquid evil.”…criticism became slippery. What appeared to be critical analysis often assumed that the status quo could not actually change, and thereby indirectly reinforced it.”

I had never heard about the Reichstag fire before now. Why do we study the Holocaust so hard but not how he came to power so that those things can never happen again?? We say it was the treaty from WWI and that’s all we learn but…! The gaps in US history and more will radicalize you.

“In the year before the president was elected, American journalists were often mistaken about his campaign. As he… accumulated victory after victory, our commentariat assured us that at the next stage he would be stopped… one group of observers who took a different position: east Europe. To them, much about the president’s campaign was familiar…”

This book was written right around Trump’s first presidency and I’m realizing now there’s a lot of stuff he did that I just completely forgot about. The man honestly does so much it’s all hard to keep track of.