In light of recent events in Europe and the United States, I have been reading Tim Snyder’s examination of fascism in 2017’s “On Tyranny.”
The graphic novel was published in 2021 and it is eerily prescient.
The book explains how normalcy gives way to fear, to hesitation and, finally, to compliance.
Watching the “democratic” world work its way through to authoritarianism is frightening. It is even more so when the country that stood as a bulwark against totalitarian movements has not only embraced the smaller banana republic-style strongman model, but has surpassed decades-long movements in just nine short weeks.
Only Putin’s Russia has thrived in the poisoned garden longer and its territorial ambitions were unraveling its economy, that is, until the U.S. Il Duce wannabe decided that Kremlin kompromat would be damaging enough to turn his most ardent cultists against him and threw the Ukrainian people to the wolves.
Where are we now?
Stay tuned. Over the next weeks I will be analyzing Snyder’s conclusions and applying them to real-world events.
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