Autocracy: Rules For Survival

ALL IN With CHRIS HAYES, introduced a new format for his MSNBC show on Friday’s, with a live studio audience, from Rockefeller Center, and it’s damn good. Masha Gessen, Columnist, at the The New Yorker, was a guest today. Gessen shared a moment of clarity, experienced after the 2016 “election” of Donald Trump, then Gessen wrote Autocracy: Rules For Survival

Rule #1 

Believe the autocrat.

Rule # 2

Do not be taken in by small signs of normality.

Rule # 3

Institutions will not save you.

Rule # 4

Be outraged.

Rule # 5

Don’t make compromises.

Rule # 6

Remember the future.

Masha Gessen, The New York Review of Books, November 10, 2016

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