From a preeminent historian of fascism:
"[G]reater knowledge of the past, fascist or otherwise, allows us to notice and conceptualize elements of the present that we might otherwise disregard and to think more broadly about future possibilities. It was clear to me in October that Trump’s behavior presaged a coup, and I said so in print; this is not because the present repeats the past, but because the past enlightens the present."
Professor Timothy Snyder, The American Abyss: A historian of fascism and political atrocity on Trump, the mob and what comes next, NY Times Magazine, Jan. 9-10, 2021
