Yale historian and author Timothy Snyder’s 2017 book, ‘On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century,’ came out just a month after Trump began his first term, and opened with the warning: “Do Not Obey in Advance.”
Niw in 2024, that message has been widely cited following ABC News’s decision to settle a Trump defamation case by donating $15 million to his future presidential library.
Major tech leaders have also cozied up to the president-elect in recent days, including with major donations to Trump’s inauguration. “There is a problem when the people who have the most money set the example of yielding to power first,” says Snyder. “It’s textbook anticipatory obedience.”
Not sure what purpose this serves .
Any historian ought to know well that the bourgeoisie thrives on obedience to Power. Their skill and indeed their survival depends on riding both horses until the last possible moment before getting on the winner.
Modern history has provided institutional safe guards such as independent judiciary To keep this sort of thing in check, but successful capture of those institution has rendered them limp.
One should not expect to find allies against autocracy amongst current political class.
Yeah they aren’t ‘obeying in advance,’ they’re Nazis just like he is. Capitalists are cowards who want Nazi rule and they are super into Trump.