"Don't Obey in Advance" — Timothy Snyder on Resistance, Imagination, and How Republics Survive

Historian Timothy Snyder — author of On Tyranny and On Freedom — joins Jim Acosta to explain why democracies survive not by enduring, but by acting. Snyder makes the case that capitulation is never the safe choice, that resistance works even when it doesn't feel like it, and that what separates countries that hold on from those that don't is imagination — the willingness to envision something better, not just a return to what came before.

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