"'The institutions held' is a really bad argument. The institutions barely held," says @TimothyDSnyder of Trump's impending exit from power. "We're treading water. We're not swimming. Whether we're going to go down or not, I think, remains to be seen."

Dec 16, 2020 · 1:13 AM UTC

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This is a Yale historian making an argument that can be easily countered by any adolescent.
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Snyder's polemic "Tyranny" is a collection of twenty unfootnoted and jingoistic chapters like "Be a Patriot" --- precisely the wrong way for a scholar to make an argument.