To our serious History buffs, teachers/professors: is there any country that fought off ....

[electric_blue68]

authoritarianism before it totally took hold?

I phrased this two different ways on Google but got no answer.

I know some History; so I know histories of it being eventually fought off after it was fully ensconched - but what about this other possibility.

Or at a State, Providence (other countries), or Local level.
Maybe I'm still so preoccupied with adjusting to a major life change (not medical, thank goodness) that I'm not remembering things properly.

I feel (not unlike some of you I'm guessing on occasion) a bit of a deer in the headlights, even if I'm here in blue NYC. Because who knows. (Go, Massachusetts! Listening to Rachel M)

(I feel a bit "duh", silly asking this.)
NO Rush! TIA.

Uh, der ... Just remembering Rachel's whole special on fighting off Hilterism/Nazism back in the 1940's.

Maybe bc I had 3 sets of sleep, and from each I woke up from a different kind of nightmare! Geeeeebz. 😑

[The Blue Flower]

1. "A Force More Powerful"

A documentary and then a book about how people around the world fought it off successfully. I read the book, didn't see the doc. I thik it was on PBS some decades ago.

[electric_blue68]

2. Ah! Ty!

[TreasonousBastard]

3. We did. First amendments were restoring proper freedoms we neglected ...

at first.

Then there was Jackson, and a few others. Two four year terms for Pres was genius.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Suggestions

A close read of Crane Brinton's "Anatomy of Revolution". Revolutions have starting points and roots decades before they actually happen. I would argue fascism is really a rolling revolution. Brinton suggests by strong argument that once started, revolutions never fail, they always change society until they burn out.

I'm not really familiar with the history of Italian city states in the 19th century, but seems to me Garibaldi is relevant to some extent.

[electric_blue68]

5. TY, you three. I guess more reading in my future. 👍

[Cracklin Charlie]

6. Didn't the United States of America do that?

We fought off a king’s army.