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Timothy's avatar

Wow your work earned the attention of a right wing troll! Congrats! 👏👏👏

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Susan Cortilet Jones (link ⬇️)'s avatar

Are you hopeful or depressed? I mean that sincerely. Your book Strongmen and subsequent efforts to mobilize the public feels like the intellectuals in Europe who sat in coffee shops seeing this coming years and decades ahead of time and most didn't listen. My husband's beloved uncle was a history professor, black history professor and college president who died 4 years ago. I loved talking with him. He was dismissed by many. But, a decade ago he spoke about the current day exactly as it's unfolding. My husband and I went to Turkey and stayed with a dear friend in Istanbul in 2011. I remember being somewhat detached as she 'grumbled' about what was unfolding then with Erdogan's rise. It almost seems as if democracies inevitably die, because most don't heed the warnings, no matter how broadly they are shared. I literally follow you and 4 others who seem to be warning us all. The larger public seems checked out or relieved about the new administration. Media is back to both sides. The Republicans are overtly broadcasting their determination for authoritarian leadership and the Democrats seem largely to want to hold to 'principle' and 'civility'. How does this get better?

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