Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
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-The Question: How the hell did we get here?
-The Answer: Citizens United.

When someone shares an outlandish prediction of how things may go under Trump, ask yourself whether the idea itself is outlandish or if you consider it outlandish just because it is disconnected from your experiences.

This is why studying history matters. It takes you out of your own experience.

Mike Johnson wants to keep the *Did Future Attorney General Matt Gaetz Have Sex with a High School Girl Report* a secret. Mike Johnson says that doctors should get 10 years of hard labor for performing abortions. These two things are directly related.