Are
we living in Weimar America? I don't think so. This is a 250-year old
established democracy and the world's undisputed superpower, not a
fragile, recent republic erected on the ashes of a defeated country. But
this does not mean that the country is not in real peril. Unhappy
societies, like unhappy families, have their distinct ways of being
unhappy. Ours will not be like Germany in 1930; it will be like America
in 2017. And, in this interview, Timothy Snyder is absolutely right about the fact that the window
of time to prevent a crisis is brief. And he's right when he says:
"The temptation in a new situation is to imagine that nothing has changed."
Our imaginations need to be deployed better.
"The temptation in a new situation is to imagine that nothing has changed."
Our imaginations need to be deployed better.
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