![]() ![]() It's going to depend more on us than on them in the meantime. In January 2018 we will probably have a pretty good idea which way this thing is going. It's three years on the outside, but in more likelihood something like a year. Nobody can be sure how long this particular regime change with Trump will take, but there is a clock, and the clock really is ticking. ![]() In May of 2017, he speculated on how quickly American democracy could begin to crumble in the face of this assault: ![]() In a series of conversations at Salon, Snyder has repeatedly warned and predicted how Donald Trump's regime, the Republican Party and their ascendant neofascist movement would threaten the foundations and future of American democracy. ![]() Snyder, a professor at Yale, is the author of the bestselling books " On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century," " The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America" and " Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary." His new book is " On Tyranny Graphic Edition," an adaptation of his 2017 bestseller illustrated by Nora Krug. In his books, essays and public scholarship, historian Timothy Snyder has been conducting a master class on authoritarianism, neofascism, and the existential threat that Donald Trump and his movement represent to America's multiracial democracy. One reason historians study the past is to better understand the present. ![]()
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