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	Podcast:		The Brian Lehrer Show
	Episode:		How History Should Guide Us Away From Authoritarianism
	Category:		News & Politics
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	Publish Date:		2018-04-06 11:00:44
	Description:		Timothy Snyder, history professor at Yale University and the author of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Tim Duggan Books, 2017) and The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America (Tim Duggan Books, 2018) explores how to avoid the slide into authoritarianism and what he calls "unfreedom." On Trump's claim that migrants are committing rape at a high rate (w/no evidence), @TimothyDSnyder says that's a "classic move" to associate crime + migrants, even though statistical evidence is to the contrary. It feeds into his larger strategy of trying to define us v. them. — Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) April 6, 2018 It's important to name these rhetorical strategies (like what Trump says about migrants) + explain how they are steeped in history, says @TimothyDSnyder. — Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) April 6, 2018 @TimothyDSnyder says history shows us patterns + limits -- the more we see that, the more we can see what we can + can't do (and makes us see our responsibility). "History is a guide...it instructs us; it also instructs the people who are working against us." — Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) April 6, 2018 @TimothyDSnyder says the way he treats Russia in his book is meant to be a "warning...that's a negative future" that we should try to avoid. — Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) April 6, 2018
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