Yale historian warns America only has a year - maybe less - to save the republic from Cheeto

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http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/yale-historian-warns-america-only-has-a-year-maybe-less-to-save-the-republic-from-trump/

While many Americans believed that the democratic institutions that are presently in place would rein in the president’s actions, Snyder said, “It is all about him all of [the] time, it is not about the citizens and our political traditions.” Snyder also noted that Fuckface Von Pussygrabber doesn’t actually seem to care about the institutions of American democracy at all, and instead has treated institutions and the law “as barriers to the goal of permanent kleptocratic authoritarianism.”

Snyder is not the only intellectual to draw connections between the Vulgar Yam’s actions as president and authoritarian regimes. Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen published a piece outlining rules for survival while living under autocracy in the days following Twitler’s election victory. “Institutions will not save you,” Gessen wrote.

The Yale professor published a piece in November that sought to draw comparisons between Dolt45’s rise in 2016 and Adolf Hitler’s in the 1930s, not because they are exactly similar, but rather, as Snyder told Süddeutsche Zeitung, “[to] help others to learn how republics collapse.” Touching on the nature of American exceptionalism and noting that Americans “think we live outside of history,” Snyder suggested:

Americans tend to think: “We have freedom because we love freedom, we love freedom because we are free.” It is a bit circular and doesn’t acknowledge the historical structures that can favor or weaken democratic republics. We don’t realize how similar our predicaments are to those of other people.