Yale professor discusses best-selling book 'On Tyranny'
Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, was so alarmed by the election of Donald Trump last fall that soon after he posted a list on Facebook of 20 Lessons from the 20th Century on How to Survive in Trump's America.
The list went viral and the Penguin Random House imprint Tim Duggan Books released an expanded, pocket-sized edition of Snyder's warnings that quickly reached high on Amazon.com's best-seller list.
What I thought I should try to do as quickly as possible, and economically as possible, concisely as possible, was pass on what I think I understand about regime change, in the negative sense, from democracy to authoritarianism.
How long has America really been a democracy, in the sense of people being allowed to vote? I would say, circa 1965, Civil Rights Act?
In addition to that, we're not a democracy now, in the very important sense that there are voter suppression laws, there is an electoral college, which means people's votes don't count the same as other people's votes.