"Do Not Obey in Advance": Timothy Snyder on How Corporate America Is Bending to Trump
December 20, 2024
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We speak with Yale historian and author Timothy Snyder, an expert on authoritarianism, about how corporate America has responded to Donald Trump's reelection. Snyder's 2017 book _On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century_ came out just a month after Trump began his first term, and opened with the warning: "Do Not Obey in Advance." That message has been widely cited following ABC News's decision to settle a Trump defamation case by donating $15 million to his future presidential library. Major tech leaders have also cozied up to the president-elect in recent days, including with major donations to Trump's inauguration. "There is a problem when the people who have the most money set the example of yielding to power first," says Snyder. "It's textbook anticipatory obedience."
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