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The Fall Of Institutions [1]

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Date: 2025-01-25

The Senate vote last night reminded me of the book written by Russian dissident and journalist now living in America, Masha Gessen.

In Surviving Autocracy she provided the playbook for how authoritarian governments aggregate power and democracies fall. She addressed the similarities she was witnessing with the political tactics used during the first Trump administration and her experience with Putin’s rise to power.

Ms. Gessen included in her book some suggestions for what to do in these situations.

Here are three that most apply to the current circumstances:

-Believe the autocrat

-Do not be taken in by small signs of normalcy

-Your Institutions will not save you

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