How Do You Convince People to Accept Authoritarianism? (and a note about Nov. 9 live Q&A, 8-9pmET)

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I wanted to share some thoughts in view of the recent US elections. Some of this expands on my recent commentaries for MSNBC (Mehdi Hasan and Ali Velshi shows), and some are reflections I have not yet aired publicly.

I always seek to give the big picture,…