Timothy Snyder: The Strongman Fantasy

[MadameButterfly]

10. This is brilliant, as always from Snyder but I wish he'd focus more on the economy and "getting things done"

Because neither of those things happen in dictatorships. Authoritarian rule is bad for the economy, and when only loyalists are runnning things then nobody knows what they are doing and things don't get done. The illusion is that without debate, you just do it. But without debate, you do it wrong, do the wrong things, don't solve problems.

I suppose all this is implied in his text, but the people who need to hear it need it spelled out. Dictatorship= less getting done, poor economy, less money for you.