欧宝娱乐

Searingly powerful book on what is necessary for freedom and how Trump, Musk, and Putin and working to thwart it for their own malignant ends.

Snyder does an elegant job of weaving together how true freedom is more than freedom from some constraint; that it also requires us to be positively empowered to be free. That we need sovereignty, mobility, factuality, and solidarity. We must also be free to be unpredictable.

He introduced me a term that will haunt me: Sadopopulism. "Populism offers redistribution, something to the people from the state; sadopopulism offers only the spectacle of others being still more deprived. Sadopopulism salves the pain of immobility by directing attention to others who suffer more. One group is reassured that, thanks to its resilience, it will do less poorly than another from government paralysis. Sadopopulism bargains, in other words, not by granting resources but by offering relative degrees of pain and permission to enjoy the suffering of others.

Donald Trump proved to be a compelling sadopopulist, teaching his supporters contempt for others during his campaigns, then declining to build infrastructure as president -- precisely because it would have helped people." (148)

I feel this in my bones.

"Do not vote for a party that denies climate change. People who lie about the end of the world will keep lying until the world ends." (234)

Beautiful prose; insightful text; and absolutely heartbreaking.