Isabella Richard’s Reviews > To Stop a Tyrant: The Power of Political Followers to Make or Brake a Toxic Leader > Status Update

“If the democratic political process has been eviscerated by an autocratic regime [. . .] how does the ethical equation change? While the outward norms of bureaucratic culture may need to be maintained [. . .], moral accountability rises to a first-order concern. Is is in this situation that ‘just following orders’ is itself a crime, and followership is tested at its moral core.”