Autocracy: Rules for Survival | The New York Review | by Masha Gessen

Trump is anything but a regular politician and this has been
anything but a regular election. It might be worth considering
the rules I've learned for surviving in an autocracy and
salvaging your sanity and self-respect.
November 10, 2016

"Thank you, my friends. Thank you. Thank you. We have lost. We have lost, and this is the last day of my political career, so I will say what must be said. We are standing at the edge of the abyss. Our political system, our society, our country itself are in greater danger than at any time in the last century and a half. The president-elect has made his intentions clear, and it would be immoral to pretend otherwise. We must band together right now to defend the laws, the institutions, and the ideals on which our country is based."

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