There’s a Reason Even ‘Smart’ People Surrender to Trump

"I think we’re all in a prisoner’s dilemma. Unless we start acting collectively — and by “we,” I mean the most expansive we possible — of us who don’t want to live in Trump’s autocracy, then we’re just going to have to be making life worse for one another with every concession." ~ Masha Gessen

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M. Gessen and Patrick Healy try to reckon with the president’s whiplash authoritarianism.