Masha Gessen how to survive in an autocracy

[jodymarie aimee]

this Russian lady has been popping up a lot lately and she is brilliant. See excerpt from her book. She lived there and now here, where she never thought this would happen. And it has.
http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/11/10/trump-election-autocracy-rules-for-survival/

[Warpy]

1. Good advice, all of it

but believing what Trump says? The fucking idiot contradicts himself every other day, depending on what crank he's talked to most recently.

Politicians on our side will be mostly conciliatory. Government protects itself first, civil order second, and everything else is dead last--and that is in the best of times which these are not.

FDT

[dgibby]

2. Forget about Trump-

Bannon's the POTUS. Believe what he says.

[Warpy]

3. No shit, Trumpie's already bored with his new bauble

[klook]

4. Rule #1: Believe the autocrat. He means what he says.

This is a must-read piece. In fact, we should re-read it every few days.

This is also frighteningly prescient, in the same publication:
Hannah Arendt: From an Interview (Oct. 26, 2978)