02366cam a2200433 i 4500 21497511 NUST 20220825120434.0 200407s2020 nyu b 000 0 eng 2020003180 9780593188934 (hardcover) 9780593188941 (ebook) Azhar LBSOR/DLC eng rda DLC DLC pcc n-us---- E912 .G467 2020 973.933 23 GES Gessen, Masha, author. 94969 Surviving autocracy Masha Gessen. New York : Riverhead Books, 2020 xvi, 270 pages ; 21 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references. What do we call it? -- Waiting for the Reichstag fire -- The Styrofoam president -- We could call it a kakistocracy -- We could call it corruption -- We could call it aspirational autocracy -- We could pretend he is an alien, or call it the government of destruction -- The death of dignity -- Mueller did not save us -- Institutions have not saved us -- Words have meaning, or they ought to -- The power lie -- The tweet trap -- Normalization is (almost) unavoidable -- Resisting Trump's war on the media -- How politics dies -- A white male supremacist president -- "Throwing off the mask of hypocrisy" -- The antipolitics of fear -- Confronting civil society -- The power of moral authority -- Who is "us"? And who are we? "An analysis of the destruction the Trump administration has waged on our institutions, the cultural norms we hoped would save us, and our very sense of identity"-- Provided by publisher. HB Trump, Donald, 1946- Influence. 94970 Authoritarianism United States. 94971 Dictatorship United States. 94972 Political culture United States. 7978 United States Politics and government 2017- 94973 Online version: Gessen, Masha. Surviving autocracy New York : Riverhead Books, 2020 9780593188941 (DLC) 2020003181 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg ddc LC 590586 590586 0 0 ddc 0 0 CL CL LC 2022-07-25 973.933 GES LC-195 2022-07-25 2022-07-25 REF