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The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience.
On Tyranny is a call to arms and a guide to resistance, with invaluable ideas for how we can preserve our freedoms in the uncertain years to come.
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Jason Stanley, Timothy Snyder (the author of this book), and Marci Shore (married to Timothy Snyder) were all Yale professors and all have fled the United States to teach at the University of Toronto in Fall 2025.
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He admits he writes from the point of view of the 'American Left' - his words. And yet he says:
I never once felt at Yale the slightest sense that I should or should not say or write anything in particular; it is important that everyone have that sense.
Then imagine a professor writing this article from the POV of the American Right. Can you even imagine it? I cannot. I doubt Snyder can, either.
I have been writing and speaking for a long time about self-induced regime change in the United States
Amazing. It's democracy when leftist WASPs win. It's "self-induced regime change" when anybody else wins.
the origins of modern tyranny
No mention of how the federal government is made up of East Coasters who manipulate things like the FBI, the IRS, and the NSA to perturb, selectively audit, persecute, arrest, and imprison their own perceived enemies on US soil: entities like churches, Republican lobbyists, or prolife activists. Even the ACLU has warned about this, but Snyder mentions none of it. He only mentions a democratic election result that he disagrees with. Tyranny is from the people, he argues. The people are the tyrants over the people, it turns out. What a reversal.
He very obliquely indicates that Congress is now concerned with violent antisemitism coming on American campuses that's stemming from the pro-Palestinian wing of the left. He says "this concern with antisemitism is to foment antisemitism." "Not to notice this is to allow the word 'antisemitism' to become the political instrument of the actual antisemites." War is peace, too, apparently. 2+2=5.
What a toxic point of view.
Yet here we are 8 years later. Where's that tyranny again?
Yet here we are 8 years later. Where's that tyranny again?
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/29/nx...on-threats
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/a...aylor.html