Yale professor Timothy Snyder announced this week that he and his wife Marci Shore (also a Yale prof) are leaving America and moving to Canada to teach at the University of Toronto. This is significant because Snyder is an expert on tyranny. His book On Tyranny: 20 Lessons from the Twentieth Century is a succinct and vital read on the subject. It was one of the best books I read while living in Vanuatu during Trump's first term. I highly recommend it.
The first "rule," Do Not Obey In Advance, is being broken by countless individuals and corporations under Trump's second term. Once you're aware of this pithy statement, you'll start to see it happening everywhere, and it's frightening.
Here's John Lithgow reading from the book:
