TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gessen,Masha
TI  - Surviving autocracy 
SN  - 9780593188934
AV  - E912 .G467 2020
U1  - 973.933 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New York
PB  - Riverhead Books
KW  - Trump, Donald,
KW  - Authoritarianism
KW  - United States
KW  - Dictatorship
KW  - Political culture
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 2017-
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; What do we call it? -- Waiting for the Reichstag fire -- The Styrofoam president -- We could call it a kakistocracy -- We could call it corruption -- We could call it aspirational autocracy -- We could pretend he is an alien, or call it the government of destruction -- The death of dignity -- Mueller did not save us -- Institutions have not saved us -- Words have meaning, or they ought to -- The power lie -- The tweet trap -- Normalization is (almost) unavoidable -- Resisting Trump's war on the media -- How politics dies -- A white male supremacist president -- "Throwing off the mask of hypocrisy" -- The antipolitics of fear -- Confronting civil society -- The power of moral authority -- Who is "us"? And who are we?
N2  - "An analysis of the destruction the Trump administration has waged on our institutions, the cultural norms we hoped would save us, and our very sense of identity"--
ER  -