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The lesson of 1933 is you get out sooner rather than later

by Sunlight Dancer @, Wednesday, September 10, 2025, 00:22 (426 days ago) @ Padrino

Our condo board hired Ana Lozan 10 or so years ago. I don't recall the issue but she was competent. Don't know the other person.

It's interesting that the article was written about history professors whose expertise is in European dictators, saw what was coming and fled the US. One of them, Dr Timothy Snyder, wrote a book "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century". Excellent read.

There was a documentary series on PBS called "The Dictators Playbook". It covered Mussolini, Franco, Kim Sung Il, Saddam Hussein, Noriega and Idi Amin. What I found fascinating was that they not only studied and learned from the methods of one another, they all used specific actions to seize and maintain their power. Trump is not a very bright guy and has no interest in history. However, somebody high up in his administration is following every step in The Dictators Playbook in earnest.

https://www.pbs.org/tpt/dictators-playbook/


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