Written in April of 2020, there’s a kind of hopefulness and direness in the epilogue of this book, which looks at some of the various and specific ways the Trump administration, and the GOP at large, have either specifically engineered or stumbled blindly into the realm of authoritarianism, as well as some of the failures of understanding that anti-fascist (and anti-aligned people) have had in the face of this. The direness is that looking over the previous four years Masha Gessen doesn’t like the trends […]