Surviving autocracy /
In the run-up to the 2016 election, Masha Gessen stood out from other journalists for the ability to convey the ominous significance of Donald Trump's speech and behavior, unprecedented in a national candidate. Within forty-eight hours of his victory, the essay "Autocracy: Rules for Surviv...
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New York :
Riverhead Books,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- What do we call it?
- Waiting for the Reichstag fire
- The Styrofoam president
- We could call it a kakistocracy
- We could call it corruption
- We could call it aspirational autocracy
- We could pretend he is an alien, or call it the government of destruction
- The death of dignity
- Mueller did not save us
- Institutions have not saved us
- Words have meaning, or they ought to
- The power lie
- The tweet trap
- Normalization is (almost) unavoidable
- Resisting Trump's war on the media
- How politics dies
- A white male supremacist president
- "Throwing off the mask of hypocrisy"
- The antipolitics of fear
- Confronting civil society
- The power of moral authority
- Who is "us"? And who are we?