That first lesson that Snyder gives, to not obey in advance, is arguably the lesson the insurrectionists needed the most leading up to that day. Capital, when hundreds of Trump supporters, some associated with white supremacist militias, stormed the building in a failed attempt to stop the certification of the November 3rd, 2020 presidential election. Written after the tumultuous 2016 election, Snyder eerily predicts many of the events that lead up to and caused the January 6th, 2021 siege of the U.S. On Tyranny gives the reader twenty lessons for preventing and combating Democratic backsliding.
That is the very first lesson given in the book On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Yale professor Timothy Snyder. It eerily predicted the events of January 6th, 2021. Timothy Snyder’s ‘On Tyranny’ is a thoughtfully written and compelling guide as to how we can reverse our current democratic backsliding.
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