Timothy Snyder prediction from April 2016

[Mme. Defarge]

http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/04/19/trumps-putin-fantasy/

Excerpt ...

President Putin, who is an intelligent and penetrating judge of men, especially men with masculinity issues, has quickly drawn the correct conclusion. In the past he has done well for himself by recruiting among politicians who exhibit greater vanity than decency, such as Silvio Berlusconi and Gerhard Schröder. The premise of Russian foreign policy to the West is that the rule of law is one big joke; the practice of Russian foreign policy is to find prominent people in the West who agree. Moscow has found such people throughout Europe; until the rise of Trump the idea of an American who would volunteer to be a Kremlin client would have seemed unlikely. Trump represents an unprecedented standard of American servility, and should therefore be cultivated as a future Russian client.

[defacto7]

1. Timothy Snyder, Yale Professor of History...

He is an incredibly intelligent person with great historic insight who has lived in the cultures of Eastern Europe learned their languages to study their literature and discuss personally with survivors of war and about living under tyrannical leaders.
New short book he wrote is one I would suggest every American read:
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century

[Mme. Defarge]

2. A formidable intellect and very good writer

I've started reading Bloodlands after reading an article by him that emphasized how dangerous the current situation is and that we can't afford to wait until the 2018 elections to block Trump's agenda. In his opinion we have no more than a year to save our democracy.