Tyranny and Complacency
Historian Timothy Snyder’s 2019 book, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, offers numerous insights on preventing and battling authoritarianism. But the dominant thread running through the volume is this: Don’t be complacent. Don’t despair. And be prepared.
That’s the point of this post. While Joe Biden could sweep to a landslide – a reassuring possibility to which I return below – Election Day could instead unleash a lengthy legal, political and media fight comprising state-by-state trench warfare.
Rather than despair over that possibility, we should prepare for it. The first step is to understand what looms.
I’ll accordingly summarize here how Donald Trump, his allies and appointees could steal the election.
In fact, they’ve already started to try.
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