The professor predicted both the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Trump’s role in the Jan. 6 insurrection
Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the J.S. Dorton Arena in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Nov. 4.Rolling into the most consequential U.S. election of our lifetime, the pins and needles of this moment feel particularly sharp.
Mr. Snyder predicted both the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Mr. Trump’s role in the Jan. 6 insurrection. “I just listened to what he said,” he writes, of how he forecast what he calls the attempted coup. As he writes in his book, “Why are we, so predictably, setting ourselves up for another scenario in which a presidential candidate loses the vote and then claims the office? We are being led leaderless into a calamity.”
“They’re doing the single thing that the whole history of authoritarianism tells you that you shouldn’t do. You shouldn’t accommodate the leader before you have to. Because when you do that, you hand over power that they didn’t already have.”A Trump win would be a huge victory for the regimes of Russia and China. “Because their view is that democracy’s a joke. And Trump really supports that view,” Mr. Snyder said.
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