Breaking down the Authoritarian Playbook

Send us Fan MailWell, here we are finishing this episode up the night after the election and boy have things changed. In spite of his comments about shooting Liz Cheney and not minding if folks shot at the press, in spite of his unhinged, world salad rants that make George W. look like a goddamn poet laureate, in spite of his recent comments about how he should have never left the white house, this piece of felonious trash who can’t even legally do business in New York and can’t vote in most states is president of our country yet again. We absolutely hate how this episode is now instructional rather than a reflection on how we almost became a fascist country.   The Authoritarian Playbook - Protect DemocracyThis is how democracies die | Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt | The GuardianDespair and Resignation Are Not A Strategy: How to Fight Back In A Second Trump Term. | ACLURussian “Firehose of Falsehood” Propaganda Model-RANDHow Do Dictatorships Survive in the 21st Century?-Carnegie Reporter 2022 Why Do People Choose Authoritarianism Over Democracy?-Psychology Today 2024Jungian Archetypes