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I'm a sustaining member at NPR, a counter to "alternative" facts.
Yes they are, despite some efforts to undermine them. They very much need real grassroots funding.
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15. Establish a private life. Nastier rulers will use what they know about you to push you around. Scrub your computer of malware. Remember that email is skywriting. Consider using alternative forms of the Internet, or simply using it less. Have personal exchanges in person. For the same reason, resolve any legal trouble. Authoritarianism works as a blackmail state, looking for the hook on which to hang you. Try not to have too many hooks.
"Email is skywriting" is the big lesson here, if you didn't know it already.
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16. Learn from others in other countries. Keep up your friendships abroad, or make new friends abroad. The present difficulties here are an element of a general trend. And no country is going to find a solution by itself. Make sure you and your family have passports.
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17. Watch out for the paramilitaries. When the men with guns who have always claimed to be against the system start wearing uniforms and marching around with torches and pictures of a Leader, the end is nigh. When the pro-Leader paramilitary and the official police and military intermingle, the game is over.
We certainly hear enough of this impulse from certain Trump supporters....
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18. Be reflective if you must be armed. If you carry a weapon in public service, God bless you and keep you. But know that evils of the past involved policemen and soldiers finding themselves, one day, doing irregular things. Be ready to say no. (If you do not know what this means, contact the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and ask about training in professional ethics.)
The word is 'honor.' Only you can keep it, or lose it.
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19. Be as courageous as you can. If none of us is prepared to die for freedom, then all of us will die in unfreedom.
Historically, authoritarians resort to political violence. At least Trump does not have an overt, organized paramilitary at this time. If the Army does not intervene, successful resistance may be possible.
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Don't need a passport because if I leave here I am not coming back.
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20. Be a patriot. The incoming president is not. Set a good example of what America means for the generations to come. They will need it.
The right thinks they own the word 'patriot.' For the most part these days, they sully it.

This concludes the 20 lessons as initially published on the web. Tim Snyder afterwards expanded them into a small book, which is well worth the reading. He takes the opportunity to change the lessons around a little, and adds essays, some quite substantial, with each one. Available on Amazon.

I now think that Trump lacks the 'vision' and competence to take us to a full blown tyranny. But the danger is nonetheless real, and by no means over yet.
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Saw the good doctor on the Daily Show tonight.
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Saw the good doctor on the Daily Show tonight.
Found it, thanks! Will watch now.

ON edit--scratch that link--turkey posted it sideways (pic rotated 90 degree--no kidding), and calls it 'fake news site.'
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