Timothy Snyder notes that what Trump and Putin offer is nostalgia for a fake past that never existed. But:

"Any good politics has to be a politics of the future. So we're stuck now in a present where we seem to be locked, locked together in silly conversations on social media or polarized or stuck in some way or another."

~ Timothy Snyder

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https://snyder.substack.com/p/thinking-live-with-heather-cox-richardson

Thinking Live with Heather Cox Richardson

My conversation with Heather Cox Richardson

Thinking about...

"And we also are facing politicians like Trump and Putin who keep us in a kind of artificial nostalgia, who are propelling us back into things that never happened, into the way things never were. And to break through that, I think we need to have the future. And the future has to have a big idea."

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