It is, as Timothy Snyder outlines, an issue of tyranny and group behavior that leads to tyrannical leaders landing in power – and staying there. I’m not a whiny woman sad that Hilary does not sit in the oval office simply because I wanted a female president (someone I had once considered a friend accused me of this). It’s taken me a full year to finally come to terms with my feelings on the whole matter and I’m pleased to report that when I did finally settle into how I feel about it all, after many panic attacks and moments of depression and despair, I realized that this is not solely a gender issue. I do, however, have something to say to all those who let themselves be dragged into the media circus that was his campaign. Now, let me make myself clear – I have nothing against Republicans, hell, most republicans I know do not like our current president. Because they failed to notice the overt similarities between his campaign and those of the Nazi party and fascists of Europe in the twentieth century. I woke up the day after Election Day 2016 in tears, not because we didn’t elect our first female president (yes, I was bummed about that), but because it seemed that a man who lied and connived his way into the top office managed to hoodwink a bunch of my fellow Americans into supporting him. I couldn’t believe it. He is not the person that I voted for and he is not the person that the majority voted for. I will never support the current president of the United States. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience.Ĭlick on this graphic to explore the book page on LibraryThing! Review We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. I’ve accepted it and made my peace with it. Also, I’m prepared to lose friends and alienate certain groups of people over this review and if that’s the case, so be it. Two full months in and I’ve only read one traditional work of fiction out of the 10 books I’ve read. I’ve decided I might as well just go ahead and start calling 2018 my year of nonfiction. Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
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